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still complained of slight diarrhoea. The contents of the vesicle were examined bacteriologically and numerous plague bacilli found. The blood was also examined with a positiva result. The man was treated in the Plague Hospital. A bubo developed in the right arilla. The Original vesicle dried up under proper treatment and the lymphangitis disappeared. A few days after his admission to hospital several small vesicles developed on his legs. All of thero resembled the original one on the hand. All contained plague bacilli. The man presented all the symptome and physical signs of plague in its bubonic form and died 7 days after admission of cardiac failure."

4. This case shows that the pig which derived its disease

from the internal organs of the fatal series that had preceded

it was suffering neither from swine fever, nor hog cholera, nor

both but from plague. This fact disposes affectually of the

main and most important criticism in the memorandum.

Any doubt

raised, as to the appearance of the bacillus morphologically or

culturally and the effect of the microbe on rats and other

animals dealt with, or on the suggested similarity of the

symptoms of swine fever, or hog cholera with those of true

plague in pigs which is not at all unlikely being all eapticae-

mie diseases, has to give way to, indeed is brushed aside by