i68 THE BACTERIA IN ASIATIC CHOLERA. . [CH. 



the corpuscle altogether. The accompanying figures (39 and 

 40) illustrate all these points. In the surrounding fluid one 

 always neets with the same minute bacilli scattered about. 

 The appearances presented by these mucous copuscles filled 

 with the bacilli and by those that have swollen up and in 

 which the bacilli are loosely scattered, are extremely striking, 

 since the bacilli are stained deeply, whereas the cell-sub- 

 stance appears homogeneous. These lymph-corpuscles are 

 always to be met with in the glassy clumps and under the 

 conditions mentioned above ; but not in all instances does 



FIG. 39. FROM A PREPARATION OF FRESH MUCUS-FLAKES FROM THE ILEUM OF 

 A TYPICAL RAPIDLY FATAL CASE OF CHOLERA. 



(a) An epithelial cell. 



(b) Lymph corpuscles filled with the minute straight bacilli. 



(c) A. mass of small bacilli and a few commas. 



(d) Comma-bacilli. 



Magnifying power about 700. 



one find that they contain the same abundance of the small 

 bacilli, for in some cases these latter were missed in most of 

 the well-preserved corpuscles, and found only in those that 

 had slightly swollen up or were on the point of disintegra- 

 tion. But in all instances the same small bacilli are found 

 scattered amongst the detached epithelial and lymph cells. 

 There has not been a single case examined in which they 

 were not found in the mucus-flakes ; in cases in which the 



