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is so subject ; especially in view of the fact, that 

 infection did not occur in the natural way, that the 

 rabbit is very subject to various forms of septi- 

 caemia, and that prior to these experiments no evi- 

 dence had ever been presented to show that the 

 rabbit -experiences any harm from respiring an 

 atmosphere charged with malaria. 



Professor Ceri, however, claims to have produced 

 in rabbits intense febrile paroxysms of a decidedly 

 intermittent type, and continuing for a long period, by 

 the hypodermic injection of artificially cultured 

 malarial soil exposed for ten days to a temperature 

 of 35 to 40 C. 



This is a very definite statement, and, if sup- 

 ported by temperature-charts showing the fact, 

 would have great weight. 



In a recent report (March 18, 1883) to the 

 Italian Minister of Agriculture, Tommasi-Crudeli 

 refers to the production of intermittent (?) fevers 

 in the lower animals by the subcutaneous injection 

 of the blood of malarial-fever patients, and states 

 that he made extensive preparations to continue 

 his experiments in this direction during the year 

 1882 ; but he was unable to carry out his inten- 

 tion for the reason that not a single case of perni- 

 cious fever was received during that period into 

 the Koman hospitals. 1 



Here, then, we have a confession which makes it 

 evident that the pernicious fever, ascribed to malaria, 



1 Quoted from a paper in the Med. Record of August 18, 1883, by Dr. 

 C. P. Russell. 



