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cases it will be found the fermentation has commenced/previous 

 to the development of the Cryptococcus. 



It is of great pathological importance, as has been pointed out 

 by Vogel, to regard this plant only as an accompaniment, and 

 not as the cause of fermentation. It is an epiphenomenon a 

 result of the altered condition of the fluids^-which have assisted 

 its development ; but it is never the cause of the change in the 

 fluids, or of the accompanying vomiting. Hence there is no 

 other method of treatment than a constitutional one. 



In the loose stools of sucking children, according to Wedl, a 

 rich formation of fungus is a common phenomenon. It is found, 

 however, with difficulty, and only in thin divided layers of the 

 faecal mass, and after treatment with the carbonates of the 

 alkalies. According to Frerichs, these fungi are more frequent 

 in the large intestine than in the stomach, and are the forerunners 

 and accompaniments of the spontaneous decomposition of the 

 lower part of the intestinal canal. An oval or elongated cellular 

 fungus, with free transparent globules in its interior, has also 

 been found by Frerichs in the large intestine, and a similar form 

 in the small intestines of the rabbit. (See Tab, I, fig. 1, vol. ii.) 



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