72 PARASITIC AMGEBJE OF MAN. 



states in a letter to the author, that all of the cultures 

 of amoeba? he obtained in Manila from dysenteric 

 patients both from the feces and from liver abscess 

 pus, as well as cultures from water, were found, in 

 Hartmann's laboratory, to be free-living amoebge and 

 of no etiological significance in dysentery. This is in 

 accordance with what I have always believed and 

 stated, i.e., that the parasitic amoebae of man have not 

 been cultivated. 



