GONORRHOEA. 



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Fig. 13. 



From gonorrhoea! pas. Copied from a photo-micro- 

 graph. X 1000 diameters. 



ance is made for 

 the difference in 

 amplification, it 

 must be admitted 

 that the resem- 

 blance is very 

 striking to the pus 

 cell, from gonor- 

 rhoeal pus, filled 

 with micrococci, 

 which is seen in 

 the centre of Fig. 

 13, which is copied 

 from a photo-mi- 

 crograph made by the writer. 



In a recent series of experiments relating to the 

 comparative value of disinfectants, the writer had 

 under daily observation, for several weeks, pure 

 cultures of the micrococcus of gonorrhceal pus, and 

 of the micrococcus from pus contained in an acute 

 abscess (whitlow). Many successive generations 

 of these micro-organisms were cultivated in the 

 little hermetically-sealed flasks described on p. 176. 

 Culture No. 1, in one series, was obtained by inoc- 

 ulating the sterilized bouillon in such a flask with a 

 minute drop of gonorrhoeal pus at the moment of 

 its escape from the meatus iinnarius. In the other 

 series, a minute drop of pus from a deep-seated 

 abscess was used in like manner to inoculate cul- 

 ture No. 1 at the moment of its escape from a 



deep incision. No difference was detected in the 



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