PART I.] 



Nummary of Results. 



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TABLE XVIir {continued). 



Showing the result of injecting solutionis of Inflammatory Products into the 



Peritoneal Cavity of Animals. 



The above Table shows that out of thirty-eight animals in which the product of 

 peritonitis* was introduced into the abdominal cavity, only seven, or 18'4 per cent,, 

 either succumbed or were unmistakably affected — a considerably lower percentage than 

 that obtained when solutions of ordinary excrementitious matters were used; for, of 

 the animals experimented upon with the latter substances, about 70 per cent, 

 succumbed. 



The remarkable fact, however, appears that of the seven deaths referred to in the 

 last paragraph, three were due to a virus obtained by inoculating from animal to 

 animal in one series of experiments (in Nos. 8, 9, 10, Table XVIII), and, so far as we 



* It would be more correct to state that in thirty-seven instances the product of peritonitis was resorted 

 to, as in one instance the fluid obtained was from an abscess which had formed in the abdominal walls, and 

 which did not seem to communicate with the cavity of the peritoneum. 



