AVENUES OF EXIT OF INFECTIOUS AGENTS. i6i 



the normal, with a solution of bichloride of mercury 

 (1-20,000). 



The urine contains the infectious agents in the follow- 

 ing general diseases : Tuberculosis (also consumption ?), 

 pneumonia, typhoid fever, anthrax, bubonic plague, 

 influenza, malta fever, and in all other bacteri^mias or 

 septicaemias which are usually classed as blood-poison- 

 ing and are due to the streptococcus of erysipelas 

 (streptococcus pyogenes), or to the common bacterium 

 of suppuration (staphylococcus pyogenes aureus). 



In local disease of the genito-urinary 



In Urine organs the specific micro-organisms of the 



IN Local following infections are found : Gonorrhoea, 



Diseases, tuberculosis, syphilis (when chancer or 



secondary lesion is in the urethra), in all 



infectious diseases of the kidneys, bladder, etc. 



Parasites Eggs of parasites in Hcemic Distomiasis 



AND Eggs of {Biharziosis, Egyptian haematuria), em- 



Parasites bryos in hasmatochyluria (associated with 



IN Urine. filariasis). 



The skin gives off freely in scaling the 

 Skin. infectious elements of many general dis- 

 eases, among which are chiefly the agents 

 of the eruptive fevers, such as scarlet fever, small-pox, 

 measles, chicken-pox, erysipelas, typhus fever, rubella, 

 cerebro-spinal fever (?), and syphilis (secondary). In 

 typhoid fever, typhoid bacilli have been found repeatedly 

 in the rose spots. 



