190 Lectures on Bacteria. 



Miinchen reported in Berl. klin. Wochenschrift, 1885, No. 2 ; Id. in Arch, 

 fur Hygieine, III. H. Buchner in Arch, fur Hygieine, III. Emmerich u. 

 Buchner, Die Cholera in Palermo, in Miinchener med. Wochenschrift, 

 1885, No. 44. v. Sehlen, Bemerkungen u. d. Verhalten d. Neapler Bacillen 

 in d. Organen, &c., in Miinchener med. Wochenschrift, 1885, No. 52. 

 J. Ferran, Die Morphologic d. Cholera-Bacillus u. d. Schutz-Cholera- 

 Impfung, by Dr. Max Breiting, after Dr. Ferran, in Deutsch. median. 

 Zeitung, IV (1885), p. 160, and Ueber d. Morphol. d. Komma-Bacillus in 

 Zeischr. f. klin. Medicin, edited by Leyden, Bamberger, and Nothnagel, 

 IX (1885), p. 375, t. 1 1. Cholera, Inquiry by Doctors Klein and Gibbes, and 

 Transactions of a Committee convened by the Secretary of State for India 

 in Council, 1885. See also E. Klein in Proceedings of the Royal Soc. of 

 London, XXXVIII, No. 236, p. 154. T. Lewis in the Lancet, Sept. 2, 1884. 

 The account given in the text is founded on the literature quoted 

 above, and has been modelled chiefly on van Ermengem's excellent book. 

 The botanical description of the Spirillum of cholera is also founded partly 

 on the numerous descriptions and figures which we possess, partly on my 

 own examination of Finkler's and Prior's form. I was limited to this, 

 because my request for a specimen of living material of the Spirillum of 

 cholera, addressed to those most able to grant it, was refused, and my other 

 occupations precluded the possibility of my travelling in search of the 

 disease. I still call Koch's form and others like it by the name of Spirillum, 

 simply for the sake of shortness and simplicity. Hueppe proposes that it 

 should be called Spirochaete ; Schroter would use the word Microspira as 

 the generic name for the arthrosporous spiral Bacteria. My only objection 

 to this is that changes and shifting of names in this group of organisms 

 appear to me at present to be of little use and not desirable. The different 

 species are still so unequally known that fresh changes may at any moment 

 be required, and the best plan, therefore, is to be content with a simple 

 intelligible expression for each case, and await the time when our knowledge 

 will allow of our introducing a correct nomenclature, and one that may last 

 for some time. 



76. See the compilation by Judeich and Nitsche, Lehrb. d. mitteleurop. 

 Forstinsectenkunde. Pasteur, Etudes sur la maladie des vers-a-soie, Paris, 

 1870, with notices of the literature. Frank R. Cheshire and W. Watson 

 Cheyne, The Pathogenic History and History under Cultivation of a new 

 Bacillus (B. alvei), the cause of a disease of the hive-bee, hitherto known 

 as foul brood, in Journ. of Roy. Microsc. Society, ser. a, V. S. A. Forbes, 

 Studies on the contagious diseases of insects, in Bull, of the Illinois State 

 Laboratory of Nat. Hist., II (1886). Also Metschnikoff in Virchow's 

 Archiv, XCVI, p. 178. 



77. J. H. Wakker, Onderzoek d. Ziekten van Hyacinthen, Harlem, 1883, 

 1884. See also Bot. Centralblatt, XIV, p. 315. T. J. Burrill, Anthrax of 

 fruit trees, or the so-called fire-blight of pear trees, and twig-blight of apple 

 trees, in Proceedings of American Association for the advancement of 



