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infection are recorded. Elsching 1 has seen a case in 

 which calcified actinomyces grains were observed in the 

 tear duct. 



When inhaled, the organisms gain entrance to the 

 deeper portions of the lung, and bring about a suppura- 



Fig. 77. — Section of liver from a case of actinomycosis in man (Crookshank). 



tive bronchopneumonia with adhesive inflammation of 

 the contiguous pleura. After the formation of the pleu- 

 ritic adhesions the disease may penetrate the newly- 



1 Centralbl.f. Bakt. u. Parasitenk., xviii., p. 7. 



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