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In less susceptible animals such as those employed for experi-
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The essential point for success in my opinion is to tart plague in the particular species of animal to be experi- ented on by giving it a large dose of a virulent microbe which as been manipulated as little as possible and thua not removed rom the more natural eonditions.
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3. The reply to Colonel Bannerman's criticism is not a nial of the fact that a case of hog cholera was brought in ith a batch of pigs about the middle of the experiment. is already been atated in the report. It is that the 15 pige ad no hog cholera a disease with which I am acquainted but at they had plague. The best proof of this latter statement les in the fact that towards the termination of the series of periments on pigs the Chinese butcher who assisted in making je post-mortems unfortunately wounded his hand at one of these was afterwards attacked with plague and died of the disease. details are given in a special report on the result of bearches into epidemic and epizootic plagus submitted to the ngkong Government by Dr. Hunter on the 9th of June 1904.
page 12 of this report is the following: "A Chinese butcher
engaged by us to assist in performing the post-mortem bainations on the experimental animals which had succumbed
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