Abstract
Schottmüller,<sup>2</sup>in a series of sixty-eight cases of suspected typhoid fever whose blood he examined bacteriologically, encountered five the blood of which contained bacilli differing in important characteristics from the bacillus of typhoid fever. In all these cases there seemed to be no occasion for any reasonable doubt that the clinical diagnosis of typhoid fever was correct. There was in no case symptoms nor signs incompatible with this diagnosis. The general clinical picture was that of typhoid fever of various grades of severity. The bacilli isolated from the blood, which did not contain typhoid bacilli, presented well-marked differences in cultural peculiarities from both B. typhosus and B. coli communis. They produced gas in glucose media and slowly alkalinized litmus milk without causing coagulation. It is concluded that the bacilli isolated can not be regarded as typhoid bacilli, nor as colon bacilli, but as occupying middle ground. Typhoid serum did
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