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The Death of a Rabbit
In 1924, six cases of rather sudden death in rabbits were observed to present strikingly similar lesions. No direct cause of the evidently acute toxic or infectious condition could be discovered in any of them. But little heed was taken of these and the heart blood cultures remained sterile. In August 1924, a pure culture of a small, grand positive bacillus was obtained from the heart's blood of an obviously acute case in a pregnant rabbit. These bacilli closely resembled those seen in the two animals during July and with their isolation in pure culture, our experimental work began. End quote. So basically what happened here was that they found this disease. They found some sort of condition in these rabbits. They