xm] MICROBES OF MALIGNANT ANTHRAX 



Pasteur's " vaccine," which does not kill sheep or cattle, 

 is fatal to rodents.^ From all this it follows that as regards 





Fig. 114. — From a Section through the Kidnev of a Rabbit dead of 



Anthrax. 



The capillaries of the cortex are naturally injected with the Bacillus anthracis. 



1. A glomerulus. 



2. Capillaries surrounding the convoluted uriniferous tubules not shown here. 



Magnifying power 450. (Spiller's purple.) 



virulence the bacilli anthracis differ in the different species 



of animals, and in them acquire different qualities. 



^ Klein, Reports of the Medical Officer- of the Local Government Boards 

 1882. Similar results have been obtained by Gafflcy {Mittheil. a. d. k. 

 Gesundheiisamtey 1882). 



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