Surgical bacteriology . Spleen of ^. Follicle. c. Vein. ANTHRAX. 209 anthrax. In the most virulent form, the anthrax acutissimus,Bollinger believes that the rapid growth of the bacillus in theblood brings about a sudden diminution of oxygen and a sur-plus of carbonic acid, and that death takes place by a slowprocess of asphyxia. Against this theory it can be maintainedthat in the blood of animals which have died of the acutest formof the disease very few bacilli can be found; and further, thatin the experiments made by Nencki on the blood of rabbitswhich had died of thi
Surgical bacteriology . Spleen of ^. Follicle. c. Vein. ANTHRAX. 209 anthrax. In the most virulent form, the anthrax acutissimus,Bollinger believes that the rapid growth of the bacillus in theblood brings about a sudden diminution of oxygen and a sur-plus of carbonic acid, and that death takes place by a slowprocess of asphyxia. Against this theory it can be maintainedthat in the blood of animals which have died of the acutest formof the disease very few bacilli can be found; and further, thatin the experiments made by Nencki on the blood of rabbitswhich had died of this form of anthrax it was found as capableof oxygenatioa as the blood of healthy animals. The theorythat death results from purely mechanical causes due to thepresence of bacilli in great abundance in the bloodvessels islikewise not tenable, because no such fatal degree of obstruc-tion in the capillary circulation has been found at the post-mortem examinations. As a third hypothesis, Bollinger advanced that the bacillusm
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