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operated upon for the removal of a piece of bone. It is 30 

 to 38 {*. in diameter, is actively motile. Its coarse protoplasm 

 contains red and white blood-corpuscles. Kartulis* found 

 the same organism five times in other cases, and Flexnerf 

 found it also. 



Amoeba mortinatalium, described by Smith and Weidman,| 

 was found in distributed small purulent foci in the kidneys 

 and other organs of a still-born fetus. 



MISCELLANEOUS ORGANISMS OF SUPPURATION DESCRIBED 

 MORE FULLY ELSEWHERE. 



Before leaving the subject, attention must be directed 

 to other bacteria that under exceptional circumstances 

 become the cause of suppuration. Among these are the 

 pneumococcus of Frankel and Weichselbaum, the typhoid 

 bacillus, and the Bacillus coli communis. These organisms 

 are considered under separate and appropriate headings, to 

 which the reader is advised to refer. 



* "Centralbl. f. Bakt. u. Parasitenk." 1903, xxxni, p. 471. 



t "Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital," 1892, xxv. 



I "University of Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin," Sept., 1910. 



