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to be more efficient against the infection than the formerly recommended hydrogen 

 dioxide. 



Achalme isolated a large bacillus from a fatal case of rheumatism 

 which is now considered as having no relation to acute rheumatism and 

 which was probably B. aero genes capsulatus. 



Kendall has called attention to the importance of this organism in a 

 certain proportion of cases of summer diarrhoea of infants. (See under 

 chapter on Faeces.) 



