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SPECIAL BACTERIOLOGY 



DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS TABLE. 



Bacteria associated with Meat-Poisoning. 

 BOTULISMUS (VAN ERMENGEN). 



Notwithstanding numerous investigations as to the cause of 

 meat poisoning, the question still remained somewhat obscure until 

 Van Ermengen discovered a specific anaerobic organism, the Bacillus 

 botulinus, during an epidemic at Ellezelles, Belgium. Lender the 

 term ' meat-poisoning ' two complex set of symptoms, with different 

 clinical manifestations, are included, which are differentiated by the 

 prevailing symptoms. The one form, described as gastro-intestinal, 

 appears as a cholera nostras, a simple or haemorrhagic gastro-enteritis, 



