cessful in attempts to induce the disease in rabbits. It 

 must be remembered that man is the only animal known 

 to suffer from rhinoscleroma and from leprosy. 



Klebs and Crudeli assert the induction of malarial fe- 

 ver in rabbits through the agency of a bacterium the 



bacillus malaria. Dr. Sternberg, U. S. A., has made a 

 critical and experimental review of this work, from which 



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Fig. io. Spirochaete of Obermeier and human blood-corpuscles, x 700. (Koch.) 



he concludes : " The evidence upon which Klebs and 

 Crudeli have based the claim of the discovery of a ba- 

 cillus malarias cannot be accepted as sufficient," and 

 " their conclusions are shown not to be well-founded." 

 Such is the general opinion, so far as I have been able 

 to ascertain, among those familiar with this department 

 of investigation. Bacteria said to be identical with these 



