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Bacteria of tbe Sputa an& Cri^ptogamic 

 3flora of tbe fIDoutb, 



By Filandro Vicentini, M.D., Chieti, Italy. 



SECOND MEMOIR. 

 Translated by Professor E. Saieghi. 



IRecent Bactertologtcal IResearcbes ow tbe Sputa ; 

 tbe /IDorpbolog^ anb JBtolOGp of tbe /liMcrobeB 

 of tbe /IDoutb. 



Further Remarks on the Bacteria and Bacilli found 



IN THE Sputa. 



Fructification by Spores (Ears) Reproduced in 



the Sputa. 



1WILL now deal with the reproduction of the fructification by 

 spores (spicae) in the sputa. Hitherto we have been unable 

 to obtain cultures of Leptothrix^ and microbes of the mouth in 

 general, upon the usual artificial soils ; and on this point the 

 authors, from Cornil and Babes to the more recent, are agreed.* 

 It will not be inopportune to point out a case of fructification by 

 ears, reproduced in a specimen of sputum, which induced me to 

 make the present communication. 



The presence of filaments, isolated or intertwined, of Lepto- 

 thrix, in the sputa, is well known in clinical microscopy. Leyden 

 and Jaffe recognised even Leptothrix piilmonaris ; and Hunter 

 Mackenzie exhibits a conspicuous specimen taken from tuber- 

 cular sputum during a time of improvement. t In the sediment 

 of masses of sputa, emulsified with potash, we find not only 

 little rods and filaments, but even numerous tufts of this parasite. 

 I remember also having often found in sputa of every kind 

 freshly stained fragments which I had not known before, and 

 which were portions of ears spoiled in the preparation. 



The case which gave the conspicuous specimen, delineated in 

 Fig. 1 6, was the following : — 



* Cornil and Babes, op, cit.y p. 135. 



t Leyden and Jafife, Deutsches Archiv fur Med., II., p. 488; Hunter 

 Mackenzie, Le Crachat^ etc., trans., Paris, 1888, Fig. 22. 



