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30. Still much inflammation, the ear is very warm, 
fever intense. 
June 4. A capsular cataract is recognized, white, 
milky, and glistening. 
d. Aspiration by means of Pravaz syringe. A white 
membrane was obtained and examined under the micro- 
scope. It contained a great number of pus corpuscles, 
a very great quantity of highly refractive yellowish 
bodies, resembling cryptococcus, and a small number of 
bacteria. 
10. The inflammation is still considerable. 
Exp. III.— As a control experiment I made an in- 
jection of distilled water into the eye of a rabbit. The 
injection was well made, and, as in the preceding case, 
a chemosis occurred. 
June 10. There has been no reaction of any sort, either 
local or general, and it is impossible to distinguish the 
eye into which the injection was made. 
The inflammatory properties of the micro-organ- 
isms being demonstrated, we can easily understand 
the pathology of an abces de voisinage, and we con- 
ceive also the consecutive formation of new ab- 
cesses as a result of the first. This is one of the 
modes derived from a local process by which pu- 
rulent infection is accomplished. 
As a general complication, we must mention the 
penetration of the microbe into the blood, and the 
possibility, thanks to this liquid, of the infectious 
agent being transported to all the organs, where it 
will form, either centres of softening and suppura- 
tion, which have been called metastatic abcesses, 
