738 
M. H. J. P. THOMASSEN. 
During the first weeks after the inoculation, the animal re¬ 
mained normal and showed no trouble. 
On the 14th of May, it was subjected to the tuberculine test 
for a second time ; after the average temperature during 3 days 
had been ascertained to be 38.6° C. 
After an injection of 0.15 G. tuberculine, the following 
thermic reaction was revealed : 
May 15. 
8 A. M. 
39-7 
u 
10 “ 
39-9 
u 
12 M. 
40.2 
u 
2 P. M. 
40.5 
a 
4 “ 
40.6 
u 
6 “ 
40. 
May 16. 
IO A. M. 
38.8 
The highest reaction, ascertained 17 hours after the injec¬ 
tion of tuberculine, was 2° C. This reaction allowed one to 
suppose that the calf could be affected at least with a localized 
tuberculosis, so much the more, as during the last days the coat 
was less smooth and the appetite from time to time was not as 
desired. 
On one of the first days of June, the calf was slaughtered, 
and in spite of the most searching post-mortem examination, 
not a trace of tuberculous lesion could be found. 
II. The calf of 4 weeks old was inoculated during the first 
days of April, after having been subjected to the test already 
mentioned, into the anterior chamber of the eye, with a culture 
on glycerinized potato, obtained from a tubercular arthritis of 
man. 
The virulence of the bacilli was tested on small animals, 
used for experiments. Beginning on the following morning 
symptoms of an intense keratitis showed themselves and the 
cornea became opaque to the extent that the process on the iris 
could not be followed further. 
In the meantime the animal became affected with an enter¬ 
itis (dysenteria alba), which required a thorough treatment. 
During convalescence a certain degree of paresis developed, 
