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produced by superficial inoculation, and in these the organism 

 can be demonstrated. Tomasczewski cultivated the organism 

 for several generations, and reproduced the disease by inoculation 

 of the human subject. The causal relationship of this bacillus 

 must therefore be considered as completely established, and the 

 conditions under which it grows show it to be a strict parasite 

 under natural conditions a fact which is in conformity with 

 the known facts as to the transmission of the disease. 



