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1908-9.] The Pathogenesis of Micrococcus melitensis. 
the temperature remains normal. At the end of this latent period the 
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the animal is listless, dull and apathetic, and refuses food ; and to remit in 
the morning, when the animal appears quite lively and in normal health — - 
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rises, that it is sufficient to glance at its cage to realise when the hour of 
noon approaches. The pyrexia lasts usually from five to ten days' diarrhoea 
and loss of weight being, apart from the pyrexia, the most noticeable 
feature of the infection. A short period of slight pyrexia, normal or even 
subnormal temperature, may be succeeded by a second attack of high fever 
