RESISTANCE IN RABBITS 95 



{c) Multiple abscesses under the skin. —Rabbit No. 439 received into 

 the ear vein in three injections 4 cc. of sterilized blood from a swine 

 plague rabbit. Later it was inoculated subcutaneously with o.ooi cc. of 

 a bouillon culture of virulent swine-plague bacteria. The control rabbit 

 died within twenty hours. Two months after the inoculation it was 

 noticed that this rabbit with others was suffering from a large number 

 of subcutaneous abscesses. 



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