SEPTIC DECOMPOSITION OF THE BLOOD. 
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The bacteria of anthrax are exactly alike in all species of animals. 
The same is true of the so frequently present putrid and septic bacteria. 
The number of bacteria present by acute contagious and infectious 
diseases is generally considerable. (The same is true of anthrax, rin¬ 
derpest, variola, cholera, F. recurrens). By chronic contagious diseases, 
as tuberculis, glanders, syphilis ; the number of bacteria present is less, 
and appear to attach themselves mostly to the white blood cells. 
Although the bacteria of glanders, Fig. 10, bear some resemblance 
to those of syphilis, yet both diseases are essentially different. Inocu¬ 
lating experiments with syphilis on animals have produced only negative 
results. Glanders however is not only communicable to men, but also 
to carnivora, herbivora, and especially rabbits. 
All contagiums are disturbed by foulness, and the bacteria peculiar 
to each contagious disease, vanish with the beginning of foulness, and 
are replaced by foulness bacteria, which may be looked upon as weeds, 
by which the delicate organism present in the cadaver, are soon over¬ 
run, and forced out of existence. 
