APPENDIX 



I. THE MEASLES BACILLUS 



DRS. CANON and PiELiCKE, 1 of Berlin, have recently 

 discovered the true microbe of measles. They have 

 examined the blood of fourteen patients suffering from 

 measles, and in all cases found the same microbe. 

 Microscopic slides of the blood were stained with 

 eosin-methylene-blue ; the bacilli being stained blue. 

 They differ in size, being sometimes as long as the 

 radius of red blood corpuscle, sometimes as large again, 

 and sometimes smaller ; similar bacilli were also found 

 in the expectorations, and in the various secretions of 

 the patients. They grow in artificial media. 



II. MICROCOCCUS TETRAGENUS CONCENTRICUS. 



Dr. Schenk, 2 of Vienna, has discovered in the 

 stomach of patients suffering from intestinal catarrh a 

 new microbe, which he calls M. tetragenus concentricus. 

 It is not known whether this microbe is identical with 

 that found in the bodies of those who have recently 

 died from stomachic influenza. 



1 Deutsche Medicinische Wochenschrift, 1892. 



2 Wiener Allgemeine Medizinische Zeitung, Feb. 1892 



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