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the li\'er. The intestine is relaxed, and filled occasionally 

 but not always with sanguineous mucus. The same symp- 

 toms and the same post-mortem appearances are observed 

 if the culture injected was first sterilised, only, as stated 

 above, the dose has to be a little larger to produce fatal 

 issue. Examining by cultivation, the peritoneal fluid (after 

 living culture had been injected) is found crowded with 



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Ii\-ing cholera vibrios ; from the lieart's blood as a rule 

 colonies of cholera vibrios can be recovered by culture, in 

 some cases fairly abundant, in others relati\ely sparingly. 

 In some cases the intestinal cavity contains fluid mucus 

 filled with the cholera vibrios. All these results, as I have 

 shown, are obtained, of the same kind and the same degree, 



