PART I.] 



Analysis of Preceding Series of Experiments. 



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mucous membrane of the gut in peritonitis induced by the injection of fluids into 

 the abdominal cavity. 



C— A short review of the preceding experiments. 



In attempting a short analysis of the preceding series of experiments, it will 

 perhaps be as good an arrangement as any to adhere to the classification already 

 adopted in their narration. 



A Table showing the number of experiments with undiluted choleraic 

 material, the m^ortality, and the principal lesions produced by 

 its introdtiction into the veins of dogs. 



1. Thirty-three experiments have been described, more or less in detail, in 

 connection with the introduction of small quantities of the alvine discharges of 

 cholera patients, unmodified by any admixture, into the veins of dogs of various size 

 and age ; whereas seven others are given in which the choleraic injecting material 

 had been diluted with water. Thirty-two dogs were made use of in carrying out 

 these series of thirty-three experiments, one dog having been resorted to on two 

 occasions for the same purpose ; whereas some of the others had either already been 



