IX. SUMMARY OF PARASITOLOGICAL 
INVESTIGATIONS FROM GREENLAND. 
In this closing chapter an abstract will be given of each of the 
previous, separate sections of this work containing the chief results arrived . 
at through the parasitological investigations which have been undertaken 
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I. Inflammatory diseases of the Soft Parts, the 
Periosteum, and the Bones. 
In all the (five) cases of furunculi which have been investigated, staphylo- - 
cocci occurred; in the four cases in which cultivations were made from the 
pus, the cocci had the characters of Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus. 
In all the ten cases of (larger and smaller) carbuncles which were 
investigated, streptococci were found in the pus which had been discharged. 
In six of these cases cultivations were made. The streptococci appeared as 
a rule to be identical with Streptococcus pyogenes. In one solitary case, 
besides the streptococci, staphylococci also were found in the cultivations, 
but in such small numbers in comparison to the streptococci, that they 
should probably be regarded as the result of contamination, and not due to 
mixed infection previous to the perforation of the carbuncle. ; 
The discovery of streptococci in the pus and in the cultivations from 
carbuncles in Greenland is interesting, as nearly all other investigators 
— as far as I know — have only found staphylococci in the pus, etc. of 
carbuncles in other countries. 2 
Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus and St. pyog. albus? occurred in the 
pus and cultivations from two abscesses respectively. Staphylococci were 
demonstrated in an adenophlegmon reg. cruralis and in a subcutaneous 
panaritium; no cultivations were made from the pus. By investigating the 
pus, and by cultivations, diplococci were found in a phlegmon (panaritium) 
upon a left hand; they sometimes occurred in long chains, and they liquefied 
gelatine. A similar diplococcus-streptococcus-form was found in pus taken 
from a diffuse phlegmon upon the right lower extremity; cultivations were 
not made. In another diffuse phlegmon upon the left lower extremity (by 
cultivations, etc.) Streptococcus pyogenes was found, and some staphylococci 
(St. pyog. albus?) which effected liquefaction. In an abscessus chron. thoracis 
staphylococci were found which did not liquefy gelatine, and by subcutaneous 
injection were proved to be non-virulent to a snow-bunting (Emberiza nivalis 
L.). Tubercle bacilli could not be demonstrated. 
