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of fungi, between the cheeks and the back part of the alveoli, 

 because they would remain there longest. 



1. One child whose parents were unknown, but which was 

 suckled, exhibited, after sixty-five hours, distinct thrush on the 

 tongue, which had formed on the eighth day a large confluent 

 mass. Green stools were observed from the fourth to the eighth 

 days, followed, on the eighth day, by vomiting, by a watery 

 stool, and an increased difficulty in sucking. Careful local treat- 

 ment removed the vomiting and diarrhoea ; the thrush decreased, 

 and disappeared entirely on the eleventh day. The child was 

 again suckled, but the mucous membrane of the mouth was red^ 

 dened and the papillae swollen. For three weeks there were 

 new eruptions. 



2. Another child exhibited quite the same phenomena; the 

 thrush-layer was already slightly developed on the fifth day. It 

 persisted pertinaciously up to the eleventh or twelfth day, when 

 it disappeared. In this case, also, diarrhoea was noticed on the 

 fourth day. 



3. A third child, suckled by its mother, exhibited on the 

 fourth day slight traces of discreet thrush without disturbance of 

 the health in general, and which soon disappeared by means of 

 local treatment. Another child, suckled by the same mother, 

 likewise exhibited thrush without being inoculated. 



4. A fourth child, suckled by its mother, exhibited thrush on 

 the fifth or sixth day; it remained white, discreet, and produced 

 no special gastric symptoms. 



These experiments prove, on the one hand, the contagiousness 

 of the disease, and, on the other, that the fungi pass off quite 

 mildly without any other gastric disturbances than those already 

 existing, whilst they vegetate most luxuriantly in such cases. I 

 am of opinion that the diarrhoea in the first and second cases is 

 not to be placed to the account of the thrush-fungus, but to that 

 of the change of the mother, arid because the children had first 

 to become accustomed to the milk of the new mother. It is 

 thus clearly seen, that the cessation of sucking accelerates the 

 spreading of the thrush ; perhaps on account of the fact that the 

 fungi are transported, during the progress of sucking, from the 

 mouth to the intestine, which is less favorable to their deve- 

 lopment. 



This shows clearly the injustice of finding fault with the 

 nurses for a want of watchfulness, or with the sucking-bottle, 



