II.] 



DISTRIBUTION OF COMMA-BACILLI. 



Take anthrax and relapsing fever, glanders and tuber- 

 culosis, erysipelas and leprosy. In the first two the blood 

 and spleen are the seat of the bacilli anthracis or of the 

 spirilla Obermeieri respectively, in the second two the mor- 

 bid deposits contain the bacilli of glanders or bacilli tuber- 

 culosis respectively, in erysipelas the lymphatics at the mar- 



FIG. 5. FROM A SECTION THROUGH THE ILEUM OF AN ACUTE CASE OF CHOLERA. 



In this case no comma-bacilli were present anywhere in the tissue of the 

 mucous membrane. 



1. Cavity of a crypt of Lieberkiihn, lined with columnar epithelium. 



2. Nuclei of the membrana propria. 



3. Space between the detached epithelium and the membrana propria ; 



in it numerous straight bacilli. 



Magnifying power about 1,400. 



gin of the inflamed skin contain the specific micrococci, 

 and in leprosy the cells and tissue of the leprous nodules 

 and the lymph-spaces around them contain the bacilli leprce. 

 And the same holds good for other infectious diseases, 

 vaccinia, variola, swine-fever, swine-erysipelas, septicaemia, 

 pyaemic abscesses, &c. c. If then in cholera the tissue of 



