3OO BACTERIOLOGY. 



lungs ; pigs inoculated with artificial cultures are 

 protected against a fatal attack. 



The bacillus was observed in the diseased organs 



FIG. 117. BLOOD OF FRESH SPLEEN OF A MOUSE, AFTER INOCULATION 

 WITH SWINE FEVER [after Klein]. 



of pigs that had died of swine fever, and of animals 

 that had died from the inoculated disease. 



FIG. 1 18. BACILLI FROM AN ARTIFICIAL CULTURE, WITH SPORES 

 [after Klein]. fc 



Bacillus of swine-erysipelas (Bacillus ctes 

 erysipelas malignum, of Rothlauf, or Rouget die pore). 

 Extremely minute bacilli, bearing a close re- 

 semblance to the bacilli of septicaemia of mice.* 

 In test-tubes of nutrient gelatine they develop a 

 cloudy growth in the needle track (Plate XXVI., 



* Loffler und Schiitz, Arbeiten aus dem Kaiser lichen Gesund- 

 heitsamtey. vol. i. 1885. 



