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THE author stated that he did not think any one who had worked much on the subject of splenic fever could doubt that the bacilli which caused that disease were capable of considerable variation in their effects on animals and man. Whether this disease, which is without doubt the one which has been most thoroughly investigated of all zymotic affections, gave any support to the views of Dr. Carpenter was another matter, but there could be no doubt that the Bacillus anthracis can be so modified by artificial means that the disease which it produces when introduced into animals, such as sheep and cattle, varies considerably as to duration, amount of fever produced, as well as to its mortality.
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Splenic Fever in the Argentine Republic 1 . Nature 29, 91 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029091a0
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