254 OMENTAL PLAGUE 



Second intravenous injection with sterilised culture 



CHAP. 



From these records it appears that — 



(1) No definite conclusion can be drawn from the alteration 

 of body weight as to whether or not the injection of sterile or even 

 of living culture exerts any influence on the animal's metabolism. 



(2) The injection of sterile culture appears to cause a distinct 

 and immediate (in twenty-four hours) rise of the body temperature, 

 which lasts a few days. The second injection of the same culture 

 causes a renewed rise of temperature, but this sets in not twenty-four 

 but forty-eight hours after the injection, and is of shorter duration 

 than that following the first injection. From the experiment on 

 rabbit No. 1 it is further seen that intravenous injection of living 



