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portion. Subsequent experiments have shown that 

 neither of these agents is capable of destroying 

 the vitality of the septic micrococcus in the pro- 

 portion used (one per cent of sodium hyposulphite 

 and one part of ninety-five per cent alcohol to 

 three parts of virus), and that both have a re- 

 straining influence upon the development of this 

 organism in culture-fluids. 



