BACTERIOLOGICAL NOTES 41 
bacillus has been isolated from eye secretions, and another 
from the lungs of dogs dying from typical symptoms of 
distemper, but the organisms proved to be non-patho- 
genic for dogs or other animals. 
The superintendent of a well-known English research 
laboratory informs me that the organisms isolated from 
a large number of cases of distemper were: 
In discharge from the eyes one or more of the follow- 
ing—Staphylococcus aureus and albus, Streptococcus brevis, 
a diphtheroid bacillus of B. keraszs type. 
In discharge from the nose one or more of the follow- 
ing—Staphylococcus aureus and albus, B. coli communis, 
Pneumococcus, Streptococcus maximus, B. bronchisepticus. 
From post-mortem cases all the following organisms: 
B. bronchisepticus, B. coli communis, Pneumococcus, Strep- 
tococcus brevis and maximus. 
