“…Henry (1916Henry ( -1917, McIntosh and Fildes (1917), the British Medical Research Committee (1919), Kendall, Day and Walker (1922) and recently Topley and Wilson (1929) have also expressed some doubt as to the existence of B. putrificus (Bienstock). Reddish and Rettger (1921, 1923 compared the anaerobe isolated by Sturges and Rettger (1919) with the inadequate published descriptions of B. putrificus Bienstock, and concluded that the two organisms were identical and that they should be designated as Cl. putrificum Bienstock. The generic term, Clostridium, was applied merely to be consistent with current anaerobic nomenclature.…”