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from typhoid fever. The bacillus characteristic of this 

 affection is widely distributed, being often found in or- 

 dinary garden earth, and frequently appearing in animal 

 bodies a few hours after death ; in these two cases the 

 organisms seem to have been introduced by subcutaneous 

 injections of musk. Koch and Pasteur have induced 

 the disease in mice and rabbits by inoculation with earth 

 and with the isolated bacilli ; and the morbid condition 

 which often appears spontaneously in cattle, termed 

 charbon symptomatique, or Rauschbrand, seems to be 

 the same disease : but this is, I believe, the first instance 

 in which the bacterium has been demonstrated in the 

 human subject ot the disease. 



