CHAPTER XXV. 



EXUDATIONS AND ROTTING. 



Tumescence Rankness Bursting of fruits, etc. Root 

 rot Rot of fruits Bulb diseases Flux Honey - 

 dew Slime flux Resinosis Gummosis Manna. 



I PUT together in one artificial class a varied 

 group of diseases, the principal symptom of which 

 is the escape of fluids from the tissues, under 

 circumstances which betray an abnormal state of 

 affairs, often obvious, but sometimes only to be 

 inferred. In many of these cases bacteria abound 

 in the putrefying mass, and some evidence exists 

 for connecting these microbes causally with the 

 disease in a few of the more thoroughly investi- 

 gated cases, but in no case has this been 

 sufficiently demonstrated ; and considering the 

 ease with which bacteria gain access via wounds 

 caused by insects and fungi, as well as by other 

 agents, the necessity for rigid proof must be 

 insisted upon before we can accept such alleged 

 examples of Bacteriosis. 



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