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BACTERIA IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



Fig 15 



complete, and the writer 

 freely admits that the nega- 

 tive results which he report- 

 ed after an attempt to repeat 

 the experiments of Klebs and 

 Tommasi-Crudeli, made under 

 the auspices of the National 

 Board of Health in New Or- 



l > du 8 tllG Slimmer of 



1880. CattDOt be given 

 



The Bacilli malaria as seen 

 in blood obtained from a pa- 

 tient seized with intermittent m 



fever, taken during the chill. WClght aS OppOSed to 



-^ , 



But the 



(From Tommasi-Crudeli.) 



. 



positive statements. 



fact that no confirmation has yet come from Eng- 

 lish or American sources during the time which 

 has elapsed since the discovery of Klebs and 

 Tommasi-Crudeli was announced, constitutes nega- 

 tive evidence of a much stronger character. The 

 Bacillus malaria, according to all accounts, should 

 be much easier to recognize than Koch's bacillus of 

 tuberculosis, which has already been seen by numer- 

 ous physicians in nearly every large city in this 

 country and in Europe. But who on this side of 

 the Atlantic has seen the Bacillus malariw? Yet 

 malarial fevers are widespread, and a microscope 

 is to be found in nearly every physician's office. 

 The writer has searched faithfully for this bacillus 

 in the blood of patients in the Charity Hospital, 

 New Orleans, selected for him by Professor Bemiss 

 as well-marked cases of malarial fever, but admits 

 that he has not sought it in blood from the spleen, 

 or in that drawn during a chill, except in two or 



