PART I.] Results of Introduction of Putrefying Matter into Blood. 



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Table showing the residt of experiments to ascertain hoiv long after the introduction 

 of putrefying matter into the blood, bacteria, etc., could be detected. 



* Preparations thus marked indicate that they were obtained after the death of the animal. 



What becomes of them we are not in a position to state. Whether they become 

 disintegrated or dissolved in the warm serum, or become merely filtered off during 

 their passage through the tissues and glands, is a subject we hope satisfactorily to 

 settle before long. In the meantime it may be remarked that we examined fluid 

 expressed from the axillary and mesenteric glands in the greater number of the cases 

 above tabulated (and in the same way), and have found that bacteria could be detected 

 in them, especially in the mesenteric glands, at later periods than in the blood, but 

 have noticed them absent, after a time, in these also. 



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