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There are no " spores" nor "sporangia" unless the occa- 

 sionally occurring expansions of the threads in which the 

 rods lie in double rows are so called. 



APPENDIX III. 



Notes Concerning Insufficiently Elucidated 



Diseases Which Perhaps Depend 



upon Bacteria. 



Of the diseases not yet mentioned in this book the fol- 

 lowing are outside of our consideration, because: 



(a) Dependent upon higher molds: favus, herpes ton- 

 surans, the deep wound suppurations caused by hypho- 

 mycetes, certain mold mycoses. 



(6) Caused by yeast fungi: many tumors in man and 

 animals. 



(c) Dependent upon protozoa: malaria, dysentery (?), 

 Texas fever in cattle, Surra or Tsetse disease, variola. 



Some diseases which are probably produced by fission- 

 fungi, as syphilis, are treated briefly in the text; some 

 others are suited only to a discussion in an appendix, 

 because that which is known regarding their etiology is 

 either very uncertain or so incomplete that the insertion 

 of the micro-organisms in a system is not possible. 



Phlyctenular (Scrofulous, Eczematous) Ophthal- 

 mitis. 



In contrast to the authors who would recognize in the 

 Micrococcus pyogenes alone the cause of the above-men- 

 tioned inflammations of the eye developing upon a scrofu- 

 lous substratum, a number of investigators have shown 

 that in carefully selected uncomplicated cases, in a major- 

 ity of the examinations, no micro-organisms were to be 



