574 BACTERIA IX INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



cutaneous oedema, ascitic fluid, etc., of two persons who died of beri-beri, a 

 micrococcus, which, when injected into rabbits, caused their death in from 

 forty days to four months, with symptoms similar to those of beri-beri. 

 Their micrococcus is from 0.8 to 2.4 // in diameter ; in pairs or in chains ; 

 stains by Gram's method and liquefies gelatin- 



BISKRA BUTTON. 

 See Micrococcus of Heydenreich (No. 26). 



BRONCHITIS. 



Lumnitzer (1888) obtained from the sputum of a patient with putrid bron- 

 chitis a bacillus which proved to be pathogenic for mice and for rabbits, and 

 the cultures of which gave off a characteristic odor, similar to that of the 

 putrid bronchial secretion in his patient (No. 112). 



Picohini (1889), in three cases of " croupous bronchitis," made culture ex- 

 periments and isolated three different micrococci ; one developed upon nutri- 

 ent gelatin as a grayish- white mass and did not liquefy ; one as a reddish- 

 gray mass, also non-liquefying ; the third form was always associated with 

 these two. 



Bernabei (1895) has found the bacillus of Lumnitzer in a number of cases 

 of putrid bronchitis, and believes it to be the cause of the disease. Alfieri 

 (1894) has also reported a case in which a bacillus was found which appears 

 to be the same. Hitzig (1895) obtained two bacilli resembling the colon bacil- 

 lus f rom a case of putrid bronchitis investigated by him. 



BRONCHO-PNEUMONIA. 



Netter (1892) has made a bacteriological study of 95 fatal cases of 

 broncho-pneumonia, 53 adults and 42 children. Of the adult cases 

 39 gave a pure culture of a single species, which in 15 was the mi- 

 crococcus of croupous pneumonia, in 12 Streptococcus pyogenes, in !> 

 Fried lander's bacillus, in 3 staphylococci. In 14 cases of mixed in- 

 fection the micrococcus of pneumonia and staphylococci were found 

 in 5 ; the pneumonia coccus and streptococci in 3 ; the pneumonia 

 coccus with Friedlander's bacillus in 2 ; pneumonia cocci, strepto- 

 cocci, and staphylococci in 1. In 42 cases in children 25 were simple 

 and 17 mixed infection; in 10 pneumonia cocci only, in 8 streptococci, 

 in 5 staphylococci, in 2 Friedlander's bacillus. In the mixed infec- 

 tions pneumonia cocci and streptococci in 5, streptococci and staphylo- 

 cocci in 5, streptococci and Friedlander's bacillus in 3 ; pneumonia 

 cocci, streptococci, and staphylococci in 2, pneumonia cocci and 

 staphylococci in 1, pneumonia cocci and Friedlander's bacillus in 1. 

 In broncho-pneumonia following epidemic influenza (8 cases) the 

 pneumonia coccus was found in 1, streptococci in 1, Friedlander's 

 bacillus in 2, pneumonia coccus and streptococcus in 1, streptococcus 

 and staphylococcus in 1. 



BUBO. 

 Hoffa (1886) in 2^ cases of inguinal bubo examined found Staphy- 



