142 Kliniske og parasitologiske Undersøgelser fra Grønland. 
In the greater number of the twenty-two cases of Conjunctivitis, diplococe 
occurred — either alone or together with other bacteria — which, seen 
under the microscope, resembled Gonococci (Micrococcus gonorrhoeae) in 
appearance and were stained (more or less distinctly) by Gram’s method. 
In the two probable cases of Conjunctivitis with Pneumococci, cultivations 
were made from the discharge; in three the discharge was only microscopically 
investigated. 
In two of the three cases of Conjunctivitis probably produced by bacilli 
in which cultivations were made, the rods agreed so closely with the opaque 
form of Bact. coli commune (and partially with the forms transitional to the 
transparent form) that I think it is justifiable to regard them as identical. 
In the third patient the rod proved to have great liquefying power in gelatine 
cultivations, like Proteus vulgaris. But the bacteria proved to be non- 
virulent to а snow-bunting (subcutaneous injection of 0.3 cm? bouillon 
cultivation). 
Among the twelve cases of Conjunctivitis which I think should more 
particularly be referred to the group: Conjunctivitis without action of bacteria 
being able to be demonstrated, especially on account of the bacteria found 
in the discharge being so few in number, cultivations were made in seven 
cases; in five the discharge was only microscopically examined. 
In one case I did not obtain any growth after having inoculated bouillon 
with the discharge; in three cases the diplococci upon the gelatine developed 
into white colonies which in two cases liquefied gelatine, but not in the 
third; in two cases the diplococci grew as beautiful lemon-coloured colonies 
which did not liquefy gelatine. In the seventh case in which cultivation was 
made, small, white colonies of oval cocci or coccobacilli appeared upon the 
gelatine; they were not stained by Gram’s method and did not liquefy gelatine. 
Experiments as regards virulency were made in connection with three 
of the bacteria which were found. The yellow, non-liquefying diplococcus 
proved (by subcutaneous injection) non-virulent to a cock. The white, non- 
liquefying diplococcus was injected subcutaneously into a snow-bunting 
(Emberiza nivalis) which died less than three hours after the injection; in 
a young raven (Corvus Corax L.) it gave rise to an abscess. The white 
colonies with oval cocci or coccobacilli proved non-pathogenic when injected 
subcutaneously into a raven. 
IV. Stomatitis aphthosa pp. 
In seven cases of Stomatitis aphthosa, all in young Greenland children 
(0—2 years old), microscopical examinations were made; in two cases cultiva- 
tions were also made from the greyish-white patches. 
The microscopical examination of the infiltrated and partially necrotic 
parts of the tissue demonstrated in all the seven cases an enormous quantity 
of chain-forming cocci, which showed a special tendency to occur as diplo- 
cocci and chains of diplococci. The cocci were stained by Gram’s method. 
They were either quite round and oval (with their long axes prolonged into 
each other, i.e. Gonococcus-like) or of somewhat cubic form. In several of 
the preparations from the Aphthæ-patches, besides the cocci, some bacilli 
and spirilli were seen, which were stained by Gram’s method; they were 
always present in the preparations only in relatively small numbers, and 
