THE MICROSCOPE. 107 



Dr. C. If. Stowell: 



My Dear Friend— You say, in a card received a few days 

 since, you wish you could fully believe in the famous Koch bugs. 

 Well, I have been fussing at these for an indefinite time, and these 

 are my results: 



1st. Given the assumption that there are in all specimens of 

 sputa, etc., when the blue color persists, bacillus tuberculosis. 

 2nd. I have since July, 1882, nearly one year, searched every case 

 of throat, lung and nose mucous membrane inflammation that I 

 could strike, and I respectfully submit: first, that there are bacilli 

 and bacteria that retain the blue staining after treatment in vesuvin 

 in a great number of these cases, and I have found them in acute 

 nasal catarrh; second, that there is a great deal too much fanface in 

 this "micrococcian heraldry." Please examine a few specimens in 

 water and in glycerine. I think you will find materials for thought. 

 I did. Yours, B. 



To the Editors of The Microscope: 



I have a number of slides of sections of melanotic nodules 

 taken from the brain, liver and other portions of the body in the 

 case of "general melanosis" which occurred recently in Ohio. 1 

 have also a limited number of slides of the skin in the same case, 

 and would exchange them with such of your medical readers as have 

 valuable pathological material mounted or unmounted to offer in 

 return. These specimens — especially the sections of skin, are very 

 valuable on account of their rarity. The subject that furnished 

 them was a patient of Dr. Lechleider, of Greenville, Darke Co., 

 Ohio, and subsequently of Dr. Falls, of Cincinnati, who reported 

 the case in full in the Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, November 18, 

 1882. A similar case is reported in Tanner s Practice of Medicine 

 (p. in). 



I have also a few slides of cystine (cystic oxide), calculus and 

 crystals, from the bladder of a patient of my own. Parties wishing 

 to exchange for them will please address, 



Yours Respectfully, 



Frank L. James, M. D. 

 Prof. Chem. and Tox. St. Louis Col. of Physicians and Surgeons, 



201 North Sixth Street, St. Louis, Mo. 



