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this proof positive of the pig having plague and of its having given the disease to man.

5.

What remains is of minor importance. The whole criticism is practically brought to bear on the result of the experiments on pige. It may be as well, however, to take this opportunity of pointing out with reference to some of the other experiments that 4 monkeğe died of plague contracted from rats which had been infected with the organs from the buffalo

calf; and that the micro-organion which destroyed the fowle in Hong- kong gave involution forms in cultures and were fatal to rate. Colonel Bannerman states he does not find chicken cholera to be pathogenic to rats. No mention is made of the fact that Wilm in his experiments in 1896 in Hongkong found that fowls died as a rule after 3 or 4 days from plague, with plague baci 111 in their blood after being fed with fragments of organs from plague casos and with matter infected with pure cultures of plague bacilli,

6. The suggestion that the experiments of Wilm on pigs

carried out by

and fowle in 1896 and the

experimente

Dr. Hunter and myself in 1902 were vitiated by all the animals becoming infected by different diseases, 1,9. the pigs had swine fever, hog cholera or both, that the calves had