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| Number of speci- men, |
Number of corre- sponding specimen of unboil- ed milk in Table I. |
Date at which pro cured. |
Source. | General condition when obtained. |
Nature and treatment of individual samples. |
Subsequent condition. |
| 2. Bottom-sample; boiled in a steri- lised tube and set in the incubator at 37°C. |
June 1st. Quite fluid; non-co- agulant on boiling: reaction feebly alkaline on drying. |
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| 3. Bottom-sample; boiled in a steri- lised flask and set in the open laboratory. |
June 1st. Just as sample 2. | |||||
| 4. Nature and treat- ment as in 3. |
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| 5. Residuum remain- ing after the milk for the previous samples had been drawn off: treated as 3 & 4. |
June 1st. Softly coagulated and undergoing complete coagula- tion and separation on boiling. |
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| XV | XIII | June 7th. |
,, | Reaction neu- tral. Milk from the bottom siphoned off into 34 steri- lised tubes, and milk from the sur- face into two sterilised tubes. |
1. Thirty-three of the sterilised tubes of top-milk boiled at 10 A.M. and again at 6 A.M. Set in the incubator in the interval and after the second boiling. |
June 8th. All alike quite fluid and neutral: non-coagulant on being boiled anew. June 9th. Milk still fluid; contents of one tube coagulating on being anew boiled: all boiled again on the 9th and kept in a boiling water-bath for some hours both on the 11th and 12th. One more tube coagulated on the 13th. All the rest, which have not yet been employed in inoculation experiments, remain fluid and unaltered save slight browning up to the present date, Septem- ber 6th. |
| 2. Residuum after re- moval of the milk for the tubes: boil- ed for a long time and left in the open laboratory. |
June 8th. Coagulating and se- parating on boiling. |
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| XVI | ... | July 20th. |
,, | Neutral | 1. Milk from the bot- tom; boiled in a sterilised tube and set in the incuba- tor at 37ºC. |
July 21st. Quite fluid: neutral. |
| XVII | XV | July 25th. |
,, | ,, | 1. Milk from the bot- tom; boiled in a sterilised tube; in the incubator at 37°C. |
July 26th. Quite fluid. |
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