330 BACTERIOLOGY. 



all probability, be the result of one of the three follow- 

 ing forms of infection : 



a. Septicaemia resulting from the introduction into 

 the tissues of bacterium pneumonice. 



b. A form of septicaemia resulting from the introduc- 

 tion of sarcina tetragena, an organism frequently seen in 

 the sputum of tuberculous subjects. 



c. Local or general tuberculosis. 



FIG. 62. 



Tuberculous sputum stained by Gabbett's method. Tubercle bacteria seen 

 as red rods ; all else is stained blue. 



SPUTUM SEPTICAEMIA. 



BACTERIUM PNEUMONIA (WEICHSELBAUM), MIGULA, 

 1900. 



Synonyms: Diplococcus pneumonise, Weichselbaum, 1886; Pneumo- 

 coccus, Frankel, 1886 ; Micrococcus of sputum septicaemia ; Diplococcus 

 lanceolatus ; Streptococcus lanceolatus ; Streptococcus pasteuri ; Micro- 

 coccus lanceolatus. 



If at the end of twenty-four to thirty-six hours the 

 animal be found dead, we may reasonably predict that 

 the result was produced by the introduction into the tis- 

 sues of the organism of sputum septicaBmia above men- 

 tioned, viz., bacterium pneumonice, which is not uncom- 



