64 PATHOGENIC BACTERIA. 



forms, the mucous membranes, the intestine in particular 

 in such diseases as anthrax, typhoid, and cholera; the bile 

 almost always; the sweat generally; the kidney when 

 damaged; the mammae in tuberculosis and septicemia 

 particularly, and, of course, such of the pathological 

 products of the disease-process as pus from abscesses, 

 dejecta of typhoid and cholera, expectoration in diph- 

 theria and tuberculosis, etc. 



The bacteria that are not excreted, but retained in such 

 organs as the spleen, bone-marrow, and lymphatic nodes, 

 are probably slowly devitalized and dissolved. 



