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DISEASES OF THE GENITAL ORGANS. 



according to Loffler : the bacillus of the potato {Bacillus mesentericus 

 vulgatus), which is the most frequent, the bacillus of gum {Bacillus 

 Uodermos), a butyric acid bacillus, a white bacillus, finally Oidium 

 lactis. Pénicillium glaucum^ and different species of Aspergillus} 



1 Researches upon the subject of bacteria in milk have been made by Miquel, Von 

 Freudenreich, and Knopf. In milk coming from a very cleanly kept farm, Von 

 Freudenreich has found, two hours after milking, 9000 bacteria per cubic centimetre, 

 and at the end of twenty-five hours, at a temperature of 15° C, 5,600,000. Another 

 sample has given him, within twenty-five hours, and at a temperature of 35° C. 

 63,500,000 bacteria. Knopf, of Munich, has obtained still higher figures : 60,000 to 

 100,000 germs per cubic centimetre, almost immediately after milking, and within 

 five to six hours, that is to say, in the condition in which the milk is delivered to the 

 consumer, 200,000 to 6,000,000. (Annales de Micrographie, 1890, and Centralblatt 

 fur Bakter., 1890.)— n. d. t. 



