960 Tar Microscopr. 
THe Bacrerta OF GRANULATIONS. —At a recent meeting of the 
Paris Surgical Society, M. Poncet stated that the bacteria of granu- 
lations were studied in 1881 by Sattler. M. Poncet detected in an 
eye enucleated by M. Delienne, the presence of a micrococcus in the 
interior and exterior of the granular cells. This investigator also 
found it in the membrane of Descemet, and in the iris. M. Pou- 
cet considered it possible that the micrococci had penetrated into 
the anterior chambers in consequence of an incision, for iridec- 
tomy had evidently been performed. M. Poucet showed drawings 
representing the position of the micrococcus in the granulation.— 
British Med. Journal. 
ACTION OF THE STOMACH UPON FuNnar:—Dr. Miiller of Austria, 
has been making some extremely valuable observations on the 
action of the stomach upon fungi. Inasmuch as one of the 
common methods by which zymotic diseases are believed to be 
produced is by the introduction of their germs into the alimentary 
canal, it can readily be seen that this investigation is replete with 
interest and importance. He finds that if these fungi, as, for 
instance, bacilli and bacteria, are introduced at the beginning of a 
meal, before the hydrochloric acid of the gastric juice is poured 
out by the stomach glands, they pass on to the intestine uninjured. 
If, however, they are taken into the stomach at a later time, when 
the reaction of the stomach is acid they are destroyed. It has 
been satisfactorily demonstrated by numerous observations that 
persons were likely to contract cholera when the stomach was 
diseased, or, as is commonly said, “ out of order.”—Science. 
THE Bacitius or TypHorp Frever.—Neuhauss has continued 
his study of the contents of the roseola spots of typhoid, and, as 
before, finds in the blood obtained therefrom a characteristic 
bacillus. Only the blood from these spots contains the bacilli, a 
fact which inclines him to the opinion that the cutaneous lesions 
are due to “ bacterial emboli.” In nine out of fifteen cases he has 
succeeded in making cultures of the typhus bacillus from blood 
thus obtained. The author, moreover, claims also to have found 
the bacilli in the foetus of a woman who aborted soon after a 
relapse of typhoid fever.— Centralbl. f. Klin. Med. 
Tue Micrococct or Vacctne.—Voigt has separated and 
cultivated in gelatine three kinds of micro-organisms all of which 
liquify the medium. 
