Heart-clot, or cardiac thrombosis, appears to occur more frequently than in any other acute zymotic disease, with the exception of diphtheria.

Zymot′ically.—Zymotic disease, a term for diseases caused by the multiplication of a living germ introduced from without into the body.

The rodents get acclimatised, unless it be that instinct impels them to take some sort of vegetable or other preventive of zymotic and mephitic diseases.