336 THE BACILLUS OF ANTHRAX. 



Buchner has shown by experiment that infection in animals may 

 result from respiring air in which anthrax spores are in suspension 

 in the form of dust ; and in man this mode of infection occurs in the 

 so-called wool-sorters' disease. 



The question of the passage of the anthrax bacillus from the 

 mother to the foetus in pregnant females has received considerable 

 attention. That this may occur is now generally admitted, and ap- 

 pears to be established by the investigations of Strauss and Chamber- 

 lain, Morisani, and others. That it does not always occur is shown, 

 however, by the researches of other bacteriologists, and especially by 

 those of Wolff. 



