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the growth is slo^Y and very transparent. No spore form- 

 ation has been observed. 



Specimens made of the cultures sho\Y under the micro- 

 scope, besides short bacilh, also a great many which are long 

 threads more or less curved. Inoculation ]iroduces in mice 

 the septicemia with certainty. 



Fig 93. — FiLAi Specimen of Blood of Pigeon dead after Infection with 

 Swine ERvsirKL;\s. 



Loffler describes a spontaneous fatal epidemic amongst 

 white mice which occurred in his laboratory, and "which 

 was caused by this same bacillus [CciitralhL f. Bald, und 

 rarasit., vol. \i. p. 134). 



2. Bacillus of sic'iiic erysipelas (mal rouge, rouget, red 

 soldier). —An acute infectious disease, to which swine are 



