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as the Bacterium, highly refractive, and yellowish. We 
observed also others, which, in place of being cut off 
sharply, presented a rounded contour at their extremities. 
There was present in great abundance a molecular substance 
intermingled with fatty drops, and containing numerous 
granules with sharply-defined outlines, and also a kind of 
Cryptococcus. The movements of the Bacteria were singular, 
and by certain characters they differ from the charbon Bac¬ 
teria of Delafond .... The movement was not undulatory, 
like that of vibriones, but rather, as we might say, f leaping 5 
in the thickness of the fluid of the microscopic preparation. 
Much struck with this, I have made many observations, and 
always found this to be correct. These special elementary 
forms are closely allied to the Bacterium cuneatum of putre¬ 
fying blood observed by Professor Pivolta, of the University 
of Pisa, in septic metritis of a bitch, and in a mare, which 
died after a similarly prolonged disease; but the refractive 
granule is at the larger, not at the smaller, extremity.” 
Did space permit, we would give Perroncito’s paper at 
length, but the above passages are the pith of it, and, it seems 
to us, are quite sufficient to substantiate his claim. But 
Perroncito—also in the same paper—has something to say 
on “ Cholera of Fowls,” and urges that he not only saw 
granules in the blood of animals which had succumbed to 
this disease, but also appreciated their Bacterian nature, and 
communicated the disorder by inoculation with the blood. 
He admits the inaccuracy of the plate attached to his 
memoire, but urges that this is due to error by the engraver. 
He is willing to show “M. Toussaint and any other French 
colleagues, as many as will honour my humble laboratory 
on the occasion of the Congress of Hygiene, which will 
shortly take place in Turin, the original drawings 
which I made of the microbium or micrococcus, whether 
isolated or united into chains.” Again, he urges that 
throughout his paper he used “ granule” as synonymous 
with “ micrococcus.” Thus, the legend of the plate 
appended to the memoire is: “ Preparation of the blood of 
a fowl, in which are found normal elliptical red globules, 
red circular globules variously developed, and others in the 
act of proliferation, or showing buds of various size and form ; 
free nuclei; free, numerous, rounded or elongated granules 
(micrococcus)” 
The learned professor continues : “When we desire to con¬ 
vince the adversaries of the doctrine of living virus it is ne¬ 
cessary, in my opinion, to progress, in these observations and 
experiments with the greatest scientific exactitude, and 
