324 MICRO-ORGANISMS AND DISEASE [chap. 



The Bacillus of Glanders. — In 1882 Schiitz and Loffler 1 

 demonstrated the constant occurrence of definite bacilli in 

 the characteristic deposits and nodules of the nasal mucous 

 membrane and internal organs, such as the lung, spleen, 

 and liver of horses dead or dying from glanders. This 

 bacillus is called bacillus mallei or glanders bacillus. The 



Fig. 125. — Fii.!\i Specimen from a Colony on Gelatine of a liAciLLus 



OIJTAINED FROM PUTRID BeEF. MANV HaCILLI SHOW SEGREGATED PROTO- 

 PLASM AND Clubs similar to the Diphtheria Bacillus. 



bacilli occur generally isolated, and in small groups between, 

 and also enclosed in, the cells of the nodules ; they are 

 more numerous in the nodules which have not become 

 purulent ; after the nodules have become purulent the 

 number of the bacilli in them diminishes, The bacilli are non- 

 motile rods, of about I'S to 3-5 //- in length, that is the 



' Deutsche tiled. IVocheinchn'f/, 52, 1882. 



