BACTERIOLOGY OF WHOOPING-COUGH 



TABLE i Continued. 



pneumococcus and streptococcus may not be absolutely correct, for 

 practical purposes it probably gives an approximately accurate indi- 

 cation of the occurrence of these organisms. As will be seen from 

 the table, both of them are found in practically every case. Strep- 

 tococci are, as a rule, not nearly so numerous as pneumococci.* 



* In the pneumococcus group is included Schottmuller's Streptococcus mitior seu viridans 

 inasmuch as it produces green colonies on blood-agar plates. Inulin tests of the various colonies were 

 not made. Since these green colonies were found constantly in the throats of all cases, not only of 



