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Intestine and its walls, the glands, and other abdominal organs show the presence of abundant plague bacilli.
The internal organs of several of the Guinea pigs have been preserved by the Kaiserling method, in the Laboratory, and show the changes in a striking fashion. The conclusions to be drawn from these Experiments are:-
(1) Feeding with pest spleen prep forming with B. pestis induces plague in Guinea pigs.
(2) The path of infection varies - it is as intestinal as buccal.
(3) Guinea pigs may suffer from primary intestinal plague when fed in the Laboratory. What obtains in Nature, we are unable to say.
A Series. No II. Feeding with fresh guinea pig tissues, e.g., the spleen, teeming with the B. pestis.
A large number of guinea pigs was used for these observations, which were found to...