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Dr. HUNTER will know from the books if such an experiment has been tried, but I should prefer one experiment made now by Dr. HUNTER to any published account. I do not forget that at the meeting of Medical men at Government House, authority was quoted for the statement that the B. pestis was rarely found in the blood save immediately before death. Yet Doctors ATKINSON, THOMSON and BELL knew from experience that this is not so.
Two other lines of investigation I would suggest if they have not already been entered upon. (1) Has the breath of a patient suffering from pneumonic plague been thoroughly examined for B. pestis? (2) Has the sudor of a plague patient been so examined, and if so, with what result? The first question is important from the point of view of contagion, the second as bearing upon the general infection of clothing.
H. A. B.
31-8-03.
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