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cases— the urine excreted by the patient contained the 

 typhoid baciUus in considerable numbers, and they con- 

 clude that contrasted with the intestinal discharges the 

 urine is more constantly and more highly charged with the 

 contagium and deserves, therefore, more attention for pur- 

 poses of disinfection than it has hitherto received. While 



F[G 87 —Streak Sud-cultl"re ox riEi-ATiNF. of the Bacillus of Typhoid 

 Natural size. 



this conclusion in a general way and to a certain extent 

 harmonises with previous results, viz. as to the occasional 

 occurrence of the ty]:ihoid bacillus in the kidney and in the 

 urine, it differs in this essential respect that ^\'right and 

 Scmple maintain the almost constant occurrence of the 

 tyjihoid bacillus in the urine, even in early cases, and for 

 this reason they fa^■our Sanarelli, inasmuch as they conclude 



