1889.] Schwine-Seuche and the ''Swine Plague y 901 
tion have utterly failed. Prof. Welch does not mention any such 
experiments. On the contrary, we may find some reported by 
Loeffler and Schiitz as to the Schweine-Seuche. 
First, as to Loeffler, who says on July 5 (year not given) he 
injected two young swine in the skin of the belly and leg respect- 
ively. One of them was dead in the stable on the morning of 
July 7 (and this by subcutaneous inoculation). Enormous 
oedema of the skin, lungs, hypostatic, etc. The second swine 
was not seriously sick, 
Schiitz injected 2 ccm, of a bouillon culture under the thin 
cutis of the inside of the hind leg of two young swine on the 
26th, at 5 P. M. One died twenty-four hours after the inocula- 
tion ; the other died exactly forty-eight hours after inoculation. 
On the 14th of July Schutz inoculated subcutaneously another 
hog with I ccm. of a bouillon culture. It died on the night of 
the 1 6th, about two and one half days. 
On the i6th of June, at 1 1 A. M., Schiitze injected i ccm. of 
a bouillon culture into the lung of an old hog. It died on the 
night of the i8th, about two and one-half days. 
Let us compare these results, following the subcutaneous and 
mtrapulmonary injection of the Schweine-seuche germ, with 
some others reported by the government where less than 9 ccm. 
were used. 
" Dec. 6, two pigs, Nos. 43 and 47, were inoculated in the 
thorax as already described (into the lung, with a hypodermic 
syringe having a needle about three inches long), No. 43 receiv- 
*"g I Vz ccm., and No. 47, 3 ccm. No. 47, inoculated Dec. 6, 
killed Y^^c. nth, — five days. No. 43, inoculated Dec. 6, lived 
to Jan. 23, — forty-eight days. 
There seems to be too vast a degree of difference between this 
government germ and that of the German disease, even with the 
amount injected vastly in favor of the bureaucratic organism, to 
warrant any very strong claims for identity between the two. 
Pathobiological Laboratory, Chicago, III., 
Feb. ij, 18 go. 
