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bacilli, is, partly at least, a result of the specific toxins 

 created by the bacteria in it ; while the change that is 

 produced in the peritoneal cavity, into which the intra- 

 cellular poisons of dead bacilli had been previously intro- 

 duced in less than fatal dose, may be, and as a matter of 

 fact is, a local one and different from that produced by 

 the previous growth of the living bacilli and elaboration of 

 their specific toxins in the peritoneal cavity (see a later 

 chapter). 



