128 



MICRO-ORGANISMS AND DISEASE. [CHAP. 



from 0*004 mm - r I GSS to o'ooSmm. or more; the thickness 

 is about o'ooi mm. Many of them contain spores. In the 

 ear of the rabbit they invade the connective tissue as well as 

 the cartilage over the whole extent of the ulceration and its 



FIG. 60. FROM A SECTION THROUGH TONGUE OF CALF, ULCERATIVE STOMATITIS. 



1. Muscular fibres. 



2. Inflamed tissue. 



3 Bundles of the bacilli. 

 Magnifying power 700. (Stained with magenta.) 



neighbourhood. Mr. Lingard found the same bacilli, 

 having the same arrangement, in a case of noma in the 

 human subject. 



(g) Bacillus of glanders. In 1882 Schiitz and Loffler 1 

 ascertained the occurrence of peculiar bacilli in the nodules 

 1 Dtu'sche med. Wochenschrift, 52, 1882. 



