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EXPERIMENT 16 



Pig 219. — Known history prior to the experiment: This ani- 

 mal was a native pig, 9 months old, purchased in Manila and 

 kept in quarantine forty-five days before it was used, and at no 

 time during this period did it have a high temperature or show 

 any symptoms of sickness. 



October 5, 1915, pig 219 was inoculated with 2 cubic centi- 

 meters of virulent blood from pig 215. 



History of pig 215 at the time the virulent blood was drawn from it: 

 October 5: Second day after the initial rise in temperature, a. m. 

 temperature, 39.1° C; p. m. temperature, 40.7° C. For complete 

 history see experiment 4. 



Fic. 3. Temperature chart of pig 219 inoculated with blood from pig. 



October 8, pig 219 presented a rise in temperature registering, 

 in the morning, 40.6° C. ; in the afternoon, 40.4° C; this was 

 three days after the inoculation. 



October 11, N. E. 



October 12-14, D., N. E. 



October 15-16, E. L. 



This animal gradually recovered, but did not become thrifty 

 and was killed December 4, 1915. 



In summing up the results of experiments 15 and 16, it can 

 not be stated with certainty that pig 206 used in experiment 

 15 contracted rinderpest, on account of its early death and the 

 absence of the lesions that are to be expected in the early stage 



