. / \ Fig. 15.—Heart's Blood of a Mouse Dead of Anthrax. 1. Blood Discs. 2. White blood-corpuscle. '6. Bacilli anthracis. Magnifying power 700. (Fresh specimen.)—After Klein. of sufferers from this dreadful scourge, whether they be animals or human beings. The different varieties of micro-organisms require various definite conditions for their growth, development, and multiplication. In very many cases damp and wet are asso- ciated with putrefactive changes, that is, with the decay of lifeless organic material, both vegetal and animal. This putrefaction or decay really depends upon the vital p
. / \ Fig. 15.—Heart's Blood of a Mouse Dead of Anthrax. 1. Blood Discs. 2. White blood-corpuscle. '6. Bacilli anthracis. Magnifying power 700. (Fresh specimen.)—After Klein. of sufferers from this dreadful scourge, whether they be animals or human beings. The different varieties of micro-organisms require various definite conditions for their growth, development, and multiplication. In very many cases damp and wet are asso- ciated with putrefactive changes, that is, with the decay of lifeless organic material, both vegetal and animal. This putrefaction or decay really depends upon the vital processes of certain micro- organisms. It is, moreover, by no means diflBcult to see how an animal, already suffering and debilitated in consequence of the more direct results of damp and cold, and partially famished owing to the lack of nutrient material, may readily fall a prey to the insidious attacks of these minute and rapidly-multiplying organisms. They may enter tiie body by means of the luugs or the alimentary canal or may gain access to the blood through
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