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cultivations) stained by Gram's method. In urine-cultivations it never decom- 
posed the urea. 
The Coli-bacilli from the intestine and urinary organs proved (by experi- 
ments on four snow-buntings and a raven) to have rather considerable patho- 
genic power. 
В. Febris puerperalis: Endometritis pp. 
In two Greenland women with puerperal Endometritis pp. the secretion 
which was discharged from the Uterus-cavity contained diplococci and chains 
of diplococci consisting partly of globular and partly of semiglobular cocci 
which turned the flat sides towards each other ‘like Gonococci; the latter 
form was the more common. The discharge contained moreover a rod- 
bacterium which occurred frequently as strepto-bacillus, forming more or 
less long chains. This bacterium was probably due to impurity from the 
Vagina, and was possibly Proteus vulgaris. | 
In the case of one of these two patients cultivations were made from 
the discharged pus. 
С. Urethritis gonorrhoica 
occurs now and then among the inhabitants of Greenland, transmitted from 
the ships which reach the country. In the purulent discharge from the 
Urethra I have found Gonococci which were not stained by Gram’s method. 
VII. Tuberculosis and other Diseases of the Mucous 
Membrane of the Air Passages, etc. 
The Tubercle bacillus was found in the expectoration of phthisical 
patients. In the preparations they were very often found abundantly. They 
occurred as delicate rods and short threads, frequently with inflated ends. 
They were often somewhat curved or broken in the middle. Branching 
forms were not seen in the preparations. They were stained by 7лент- 
NEELSEN’s method, but often somewhat irregularly (not to the same degree 
everywhere). 
Besides Tubercle bacilli, diplococci were almost constantly present in 
the expectoration of the phthisical patients. The diplococci often occurred 
in large numbers. They were precisely similar to Pneumococci with which 
they were also undoubtedly identical. Gonococci-like diplococci were also 
seen in the expectoration. 
Similar diplococci appear not only to occur in the expectoration of 
phthisical patients, but also in other catarrhal affections of the mucous 
membrane of the air passages; probably even in quite healthy persons. 
Cattle-Tuberculosis also appears to occur in Greenland. 
VIII. Intestinal Worms. 
As regards intestinal worms I have demonstrated the presence of Bothrio- 
cephalus latus among the inhabitants of Greenland, having by means of a 
vermifuge expelled this worm from a young Greenland woman in the colony 
of Julianehaab in the year 1901. 
Besides this intestinal worm I myself observed only Oxyuris vermicularis 
