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HOW THE BACILLUS OF SPLENIC APOPLEXY ACTS IN PRESENCE OF 
EXTREME LOW TEMPERATURES. 
By A. Frisch. 
The cooling means employed in these experiments were of an 
extreme intensity—solid carbonic acid sprinkled with ether. The 
glass tubes were filled witli a fluid highly virulent, obtained from 
animals affected with the disease, closed with spirit lamps and 
placed in the cooling mixture, everything being then put under 
a pneumatic machine. A temperature of —111 0 C. was obtained 
and recorded by a sulphate of carbon thermometer, and kept for 
four hours. Bacilli exposed to such extreme temperature could 
not develop themselves, when inoculated into living tissues, with 
their ordinary facility .—Sitzungst dev Ak. 
INJECTIONS OF RABID VIRUS INTO THE CIRCULATION DO NOT 
CAUSE THE APPEARANCE OF THE DISEASE, AND SEEM TO GIVE 
IMMUNITY.—RABIES MAY BE TRANSMITTED BY THE INGESTION 
OF RABID MATTER. 
By M. V. Galtier. 
Since the researches I have made upon rabies, I have several 
times injected rabid virus into the jugular veins of sheep, and 
have never seen the disease appear. Moreover, the subjects thus 
inoculated a first time, having afterwards been utilized for other 
experiments, and having been inoculated with the same virus by 
other ways, also resisted the disease. The principal facts observed 
are— 
1st. The 4th of May, 1879, the inoculation of two sheep, one 
receiving the virus in the jugular, the other in the subcutaneous 
tissue. This last case becomes mad on the 10th of June and dies 
two days later. The other resists, and he is inoculated again by 
a different process on the 9th of October and the 23d of Decem¬ 
ber, but does not become mad. He is kept for other observa¬ 
tions. 
2d. The 9th of October, 1879, three sheep are inoculated with 
rabid virus, two by pricks and scarifications, and one by intra¬ 
venous injection. The two first die with rabies on the 26th and 
