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are identical with the micrococci of human pneumonia. And 

 they further assert that artificial cultures of the micrococci 

 derived either from human pneumonia or from pleuro- 

 pneumonia of cattle, produce in cattle the typical pleuro- 

 pneumonia. From my own observations I have reason to 

 doubt the accuracy of these statements. 



5. Micrococcus gonorrhozcz. Micrococci have been found 

 in the pus of gonorrhoea. Neisser, 1 and later Bokai and 

 Finkelstein, 2 described them as spherical organisms of about 



FIG. 27. Two LARGE SCALY EPITHELIAL CELLS OF GONORRHCEAL Pus. 



The epithelial cells are covered with micrococci, chiefly in dumb-bells, some in 

 sarcina form. 



o'ooS mm. diameter, generally forming dumb-bells, or sarcina- 

 like colonies of four. Several such groups form a zooglcea. 

 They adhere to the pus-corpuscles and epithelial cells. They 

 stain easily and well in methyl violet and gentian violet. 

 Bockhart 3 has succeeded in artificially cultivating these 

 micrococci, and in producing with them the disease by 



1 Centralb. f. d. med. Wiss. No. 28, 1879. 



2 Prager med. chir. Presse, May, 1 880. 



3 Sitzungsberichte der phys.-med. Gesellsch. in Wurzburg, Sept. 1882. 



