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don-Sanderson, Pasteur, Greenfield, and Buchner, 

 showed (1) that this bacillus could not be converted 

 into the hay bacillus (B. subtilis) ; (2) that the cultiva- 

 tions became gradually less active until they were quite 

 innocuous ; (3) that, when filaments were kept for a 

 time at a temperature which prevented the formation of 

 spores, the virulence became attenuated, and ultimately 

 disappeared." British Med. Journal, Nov. 4th, 1882. 



FATAL EPIDEMIC AMONG FISH CAUSED BY BAC- 

 TERIA. Dr. Ogle gives an account of an epidemic 

 among the perch in Lake Geneva, studied by Farel 

 and Du Plessis. The fish became sluggish, suffered 

 from a bilious diarrhoea, and the anterior part of 

 the head and body was injected with blood. The 

 intestines were distended with a transparent fluid 

 containing myriads of bacteria. The blood was 

 diffluent, and contained " bacteria and vibrios " 

 while the fish was still living. Experiments 

 proved that the disease was not communicable to 

 batrachia or to warm-blooded animals. 



Professor Huxley has given an interesting ac- 

 count of an infectious disease of the salmon, which 

 is apparently produced by a Saprolegma identical 

 with that which infests the bodies of dead insects. 



GLA-NDERS. The discovery of the parasite of 

 glanders has recently been announced by Schutz 

 and Loeffler, who have pursued an experimental 

 investigation relating to the etiology of this infec- 

 tious disease of the horse, in Koch's laboratory in 

 Berlin. The parasite is said to be a bacillus re- 

 sembling that of tuberculosis, It is found in the 



