Our knowledge of the minute organisms which occur in various infective diseases has been greatly extended during the last few years, since Dr. Robert Koch, now of Berlin, published his investigations on the ‘Ætiology of Anthrax or Splenic Fever,’ which gave a fresh impetus to this study, and formed a model for subsequent observations, though the actual relations of these organisms to disease are, as yet, far from being definitively settled.

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1882
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