Government of India. Home Department. The Plague in India 1896 1897

The result of the examination of the blood of the two cases in the Presidency General Hospital is not known to us. [...] Dyson and Robson-Scott however 'as soon as they heard of the case proceeded to the spot and made minute enquiries concerning it with the result that it was clear that other reasons existed for the enlargement of the glands in the groin which was reported to be one of the prominent features of the case. [...] -Nor does the death of the rat after inoculation afford any grounds for inferring the specific character of the germs contained in the culture with which the animal was inoculated for the bulk of actively decomposing fluid injected into the animal was relatively equivalent to over a pint in the case of an adult human being and was6 Description of Plague [ APP. [...] Apply the slide to the drop of lymph pressed out of the gland and spread it as uniformly as possible over about a half of the surface of the slide avoiding any contact between the infective material and the fingers or any other object. [...] Enough has been said as to the rapidity of the onset the develoment and the fatality of plague to make the importance of early treatment in the disease and of the requisite promptness in its administration understood.