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sition to the opinion that it possesses this peculiarity. 

 Certain observers claim to have demonstrated spores in 

 the bacilli by particular methods of staining ; but this 

 statement can have but little weight when compared 

 with the behavior of the organism ^vhen subjected to 

 more conclusive tests. For example, it docs not, at 

 any stage of development, resist exposure to 3 per cent. 



Fig. 67. 



Bacillus of glanders (bacillus mallei), from culture. 



carbolic acid solution for longer than five minutes, nor 

 to 1 : 5000 sublimate solution for more than two min- 

 utes. It is destroyed in ten minutes in some experi- 

 ments, and in five in others, by a temperature of 55° C. ; 

 and when dried it loses its vitality, according to dif- 

 ferent observers, in from thirty to forty days ; all of 

 which speak directly against this being a spore-bearing 

 bacillus. 



It is not motile, and does not therefore possess 

 flagella. 



