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No. of
speci-
men.		 Nos. of corre-
sponding spe-
cimens in
Tables I & II.		 Nature and
treatment of
specimens.		 Date
of
inocu-
lation.		 Nature of
cultivations.		 Date
at
which
set.		 RESULTS.
I. II.
              27th July. Fully coaguated and
separated; reaction strongly acid.
28th July. Reaction violently acid.
          1. Plate; inocu-
  lated by a
  needle dipped
  in sterilised salt
  solution inocu-
  lated by a loop-
  ed needle from
  the milk.		 26th
July.		 27th July. Smell musty, non-
choleraic; crowded with colonies of
the common lacteal Schizomycetes;
not a trace of Comma-Bacilli.
          2. Plate; inocu-
  lated as above.		 27th
July.		 28th July. Numerous colonies of
common lacteal schizomycetes; not
a trace of Comma-Bacilli.
IV IXVI XIX Milk in a steri-
lised tube;
inoculated
with 0.03
solution, con-
taining Com-
ma-Bacilli of
48 hours'
growth.		 29th
July.		 ...... ...... 30th July. Exactly like its corn-
panion, non-inoculated tube; re-
action acid; slightly frothed; at
first in soft loose coagulum, after-
wards undergoing separation.
        1. Plate; inocu-
  lated as above.		 30th
July.		 31st July. Exactly like its com-
panion plate of non-inoculated
milk; smell mouldy; numerous
colonies of common lacteal schizo-
mycetes; no Comma-Bacilli.
V XVII ... " 3rd
Aug.		 ...... ... 5th July. Strongly acid; fully coa-
gulated and separated.
          1. Plate; inocu-
  lated as above.		 4th
July.		 5th July. Smell mouldy; numerous
colonies of common lacteal schizo-
mycetes; none of Comma-Bacilli.
          2. Plate; inocu-
  lated as above.		 5th
July.		 6th July. An abundant crop of
colonies of common lacteal schizo-
mycetes; no Comma-Bacilli.
VI XVIII XX Milk treated
as above,
save that the
Comma-Ba-
cilli were de-
rived from a
cultivation of
only 24 hours'
standing.		 15th
Aug.		 ...... ...... 16th August. Exactly in the same
condition as its companion speci-
men of non-inoculated milk; strong-
ly acid; coagulated, and partly
separated; somewhat frothed at the
top.
        1. Plate; inocu-
lated as above.		 16th
Aug.		 17th August. Exactly like a plate-
cultivation of the same milk set on
the 15th previous to inoculation,
save that the number of colonies of
common lacteal schizomycetes is
considerably greater; not a trace of
colonies of Comma-Bacilli.
      The amount
of the solution
containing
Comma-Ba-
cilli was equal
to about
0.0029 of the
bulk of milk.		      

      The six experiments recorded in this Table were practically identical in
nature and results. The actual quantity of fluid containing Comma-Bacilli intro-
duced into the milk varied slightly in the different experiments, and so did the

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