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BACTERIA IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



micrococci of syphilis are small, strongly refract- 

 ing bodies; resembling those described by Klebs. 



Recently Dr. Morison of Baltimore has made a 

 careful study of the bacteria found in chancroids 

 and in syphilitic lesions, in the wards of Professor 

 Neumann of Vienna. As he resorted to the most 

 approved methods of staining, and seems to have 



Fig. 20. 

 Hard chancre secretion with bacteria, magnified 850 diameters. (Drawn by Heitzmann. ) 



exercised special care in collecting and mounting 

 his material for microscopic examination, his obser- 

 vations are of value, and I have taken the liberty 

 of copying his figures from the " Maryland Medical 

 Journal" of January 1, 1883, in which his paper 

 was published. (See Figs. 20 and 21.) 



No satisfactory proof has yet been offered in 

 support of the view that airy one of the organisms 

 above described is the veritable germ of syphilis ; 



