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accompanying the article, testify to the accuracy of Dr Braddon’s 
description. I have not, personally, seen anything resembling them in 
any human or animal blood which I have examined—though it should 
be added that I have no experience of the staining technique employed 
by Dr Braddon. Although I was at first inclined to regard them as 
artefacts, due to the staining methods employed, on closer inspection of 
a considerable number of the inclusions I formed a strong impression 
that they were not explicable on such grounds. 
The inclusions in the red corpuscles of the rinderpest animals are 
certainly sufficiently remarkable to demand that careful search should 
be made for them, following Dr Braddon’s methods, in countries where 
this disease is present, and also in the same animals in non-rindei’pest 
countries, in order that there may be sufficient control evidence that the 
inclusions are actually limited to animals which are suffering or have 
recently suffered from this disease. 
Should this extended investigation confirm Dr Braddon’s remarkable 
results I should certainly be inclined to suspect the inclusions of being 
both parasitic and etiologically connected with Rinderpest, in spite of 
the fact that they bear no trace of resemblance to any bacterial or 
protozoal parasite with which I am familiar. 
Note by Prof. E. A. Minchin.^ 
Dr Braddon has shown me his preparations of rinderpest blood and 
I have been able to see clearly the appearances represented in the 
figures, drawn by Miss Rhodes. I have the impression of bodies, for the 
most part like elongated rods, but somewhat irregular and variable in 
form, lying in the red blood-corpuscles and sometimes projecting from 
their surface. 
I am not prepared, however, to express any opinion as to the nature 
of these inclusions in the red corpuscles. They do not resemble anything 
with which I am familiar among.st the Protozoa. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XIX. 
Figs. 1-112. Intra- and extra-corpuscular bodies seen in the blood of animals (buffalo, 
cattle, pig, goat) affected with rindei'pest. Blood stained with methylene blue citrate 
of potash solution and examined whilst fluid. The figures reproduced by Miss Rhodes 
from drawings of fresh specimens made by the author. 
Figs. 1-4. Appearances on the 3rd-5th day after infection (buffalo). 
Figs. 5-13. Examples of forms commonly seen in buffaloes. 
