SNAILS AND TYPHOID.
An Italian jilivsicion. Dr. Barabaschi, concaived tho idea that snails may possibly nloy a ]iart in spreading typhoid fever by gathering the germs during their travels, and depositing them on tho vegetables on which they feed. Dr. Barabasc.hi conducted some experiments to lost the merits of his theory, and has made a report, in which ho declares that the snail is a dangerous disseminator of typhoid fever and other disease germs. Tho experiments consisted in spreading a pure culture of typhoid gc-rms in boullion over cabbage leaves, oil which ton snails were allowed to feed. By subjecting to repeated bacteriological analysis the slimy trail left by these molluscs, Dr. Barabasehi was ;ibio to ascertain at tho end of two or three days the presence of micro-organisms having all the characteristics of the Eborth bacillus, and which became agglutinated by tho blood serum from a typhoid patient. Belying on these results the doctor thinks that snails are perfectly susceptiblo of playing a part in the transmission of typhoid fever.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1193, 31 July 1911, Page 8
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171SNAILS AND TYPHOID. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1193, 31 July 1911, Page 8
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