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of the eye-ball of people suffering with grip. If these forms are 

 deformed ciliated epithelia, why have not medical schools taught 

 that they are found on the human eye-ball ? 



{d) The asthmatos are reproduced by budding, fissure, guber- 

 nacular method and parturition. I know of no authority for 

 such reproduction of deformed ciliate epithelia. 



{e) The fact that the Philadelphia savans found forms like the 

 asthmatos in infusion of grass shows a strange habitat for de- 

 formed ciliate epithelia human. I am aware of the great viability 

 of human epithelia in hydrant waters and have often observed 

 them there, but never have I found ciliated epithelia. I have 

 searched in hydrant waters of about thirty cities and towns and in 

 the canals of the Netherlands for the asthmatos but never found 

 one that I felt sure of until August, 1890, in a canal between 

 Haarlem and Leyden, Holland. I have found plenty of moving 

 ciliated epithelia in the juice that laves the mantel of the common 

 marine soft-shelled clam, along with cilio-flagellate infusoria. 



{/) The most practical evidence to me of the forms in ques- 

 tion being flagellate in form and not ciliated epithelia deformed 

 is their behavior to treatment with quinine, salicine, menthol, 

 the fumes of burning sulphur, and nascent chloride of ammoniun. 



I have found patients suffering with the grip, and in sputum the 

 active and lively form in question, and made them to inhale the 

 fumes of burning sulphur and seen them instantly relieved of the 

 bad symptoms. Examining the secretion just after the inhalation 

 and relief, I have found like forms in question dead and motionless. 

 If deformed ciliated epithelia are thus aftectedby burning sulphur 

 fumes, for example, it is something novel in medicine and not 

 taught. vSo long as I find that grip patients are relieved and cured 

 by killing and removing what I believe to be the asthmatos I 

 shall not cease to be grateful to the Netherlanders for inventing 

 the microscope. 



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