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taining albumen, or any nitrogenous compounds. These 

 Paras are supposed, by Berg, to be active, even after being 

 dried, and he suggests the idea of their tVansmissibility 

 in this state through the atmosphere. 



Dr. Arthur Farre, of London, read to the Microscopical 

 Society a paper on the minute structure of some cryptoga- 

 mous vegetable, which escaped in a kind of membranous 

 mass from the bowels of a female, who was slightly indis- 

 posed before, but who suffered severely for about twelve 

 hours immediately previous to their expulsion. Dr. Farre 

 was not able to refer them to known species, but supposes 

 that the reproductive spores may have been swallowed in 

 some beverage, and become so altered, by receiving supplies 

 from an organized surface, as to present new and un- 

 known appearances.* 



Mr. Goodsir (Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ., vii.) de- 

 scribes curious vegetable organisms developed in the sto- 

 mach during indigestion. f 



Mr. Gruby and Mr. Goodsir, without any concert, at dif- 

 ferent times and places, detected transparent nucleated 

 cells in the glands of Peyer, in a diseased state, from 

 typhoid fever. Whether these were animal or vegetable 

 cells could not be determined, but that they were vegeta- 

 ble germs is made probable by the subsequent discovery 

 by Schoenlein and Langenback, of organized vegetable 

 fungi in the body of a person who had died of typhoid 

 fever. 



Hanover detected a species of leoptomitus agardh on the 

 mucous membrane of the mouth and tongue of two typhoid 

 patients, and also in the bladder of a young child. 



* Confervse, discharged in a case of dysentery, are described by Dr. Bennett. 



j*More recently, similar instances of this production, termed sardna by 

 Mr. Gcodsir, have been noticed in pyrosis, by Mr. Benjamin Bell, and Dr. 

 Wilson. 



