Diagnosis of Human Bubonic Plague by Agglutination Test *Paper read in the Indian Science Congress Session held at Allahabad, January 1949.

There are two methods of exan^1^tl^ ̂ fe diagnosis of a case of bubonic plague dun g firstly by puncture of the bubo, ^ scopical and cultural examination of the tin obtained through puncture or by > PL often secondly, by blood culture. Buboes a. tod and small in the early .stage and it is extremely difficult to get any fluid even ^ hminary introduction of sterile sa natient, Besides, it is really a torture to the patlem, when bubo is punctured in a nono ^ _ Still it is the method of choice ^ a nosis in early cases. Our practice ,