It was likewise from Chartres that M. Paul Bert obtained his supply of splenic fever blood.
The bacterium of splenic fever is called Bacillus Anthracis.
Pasteur's researches on the Silkworm disease led him to the discovery of Bacterium anthracis, the cause of splenic fever.
Koch was not the discoverer of the parasite of splenic fever.
In the fifth month the descending colon has usually become fixed between the splenic flexure and the beginning of the sigmoidea.
This difference Koch showed to be of paramount importance in splenic fever.
A hen was taken, and, after inoculating it with splenic fever blood, it was placed with its feet in water at 25 degrees.
This opinion was strengthened by a knowledge of the spores of the splenic bacillus.
It results from dysenteric perforation of the bowel, from rupture of a splenic abscess, or from rupture of the spleen itself.
It will be with them in relation to splenic fever as it is with ourselves in relation to small-pox.
splenic splen·ic (splěn'ĭk)
Of, in, near, or relating to the spleen.