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mucous membrane of the air-passages, until the contracted parietes and 

 the cavern, forming a cicatrix by granulation, become consolidated, 

 the lenticular spheres being no longer detected in the sputa. 



But if the tubercular process (the individual labouring from a tuber- 

 culous dyscrasis), is not quieted by the ejected tubercle, the lenticular 

 spheres are found constantly intermixed with the sputa. 



There are seen in the tuberculous sputa, besides the lenticular spheres 

 now described, and white tenacious flocculi before noticed, white mucous 

 and granular-looking shreds. Investigated by the microscope they 

 contain cells* composed of tetra or pentagonal margins, with obscure or 

 unequally yellow centres, the striated margins having the diameter and 

 texture of the intermediate vessels (capillaries). Plate 6, figs. 87, 88. 

 Besides these cells, there are here and there found yellow cylindrical 

 fibres marked with black transverse lines (muscular fibres.) Plate 6, 

 fig. 96, 



Sputa produced from other inflammations of an anomalous character, 

 will be treated elsewhere. 



Of Urethral Blennorrhcea. 



The fluid, which is secreted in the beginning of a catarrhal inflam- 

 mation of the mucous membrane of the urethra, is white and not easily 

 drawn out ; contains very few globules which are four times larger than 

 those of the blood, and composed of a smooth, transparent, very thin 

 envelope, filled with the smallest molecules. 



On the 3rd day of the disease, the secreted fluid is observed to be 

 thicker, and of a yellowish- white colour. It is composed of numerous 

 globules, for the most part perfectly round and yellowish -white, which 

 are transparent, smooth, very thin envelope, the smallest molecules, and 

 here and there a central ves.cle. Plate 7, fig. 7. 



On the 9th day after the infecting coitus, the puriform fluid in pre- 

 putial blennorrhcea contains numerous yellow globules, three or four 

 times larger than those of the blood, some of which are seen composed 

 of an envelope, and the smallest molecules, others of an envelope, the 

 smallest molecules, and the central vesicle perfectly round or oblong. 

 Plate 7, fig. 8. 



On the 21st day, the globules contained in the yellow secretion are 

 very numerous, and are composed of a smooth envelope, the smallest 

 molecules, and the central vesicle. They rapidly swell in distilled 



* Infiltrated pulmonal cells, (cellulas pulmonales infiltratas.) 



