78 MICRO-ORGANISMS AND DISEASE. [CHAP. 



inoculation. The pathogenic character of these micro- 

 cocci is denied by Sternberg. 1 



Aufrecht 2 reports the case of an infant twelve days old who 

 died with suppuration of the umbilical vein and liver. The 

 liver cells and the interlobular tissue were crowded with 

 micrococci (shown in sections by means of a 2 per cent, 

 watery solution of Bismarck brown). These micrococci 

 corresponded in size to the micrococcus gonorrhoea, and he 

 thinks it probable that they were derived from the vagina of 

 the mother ; during birth they might have got into the 

 umbilical vein, there caused inflammation, and thence passed 

 into the liver. 



6. Micrococcus endocarditicus. Micrococci in the form of 

 zooglcea have been seen in endocarditis ukerosa. They some- 

 times form plugs in the blood-vessels of the muscular tissue 

 of the heart (Heiberg, 3 Maier, 4 Eberth, 5 Koster, 6 Klebs 7 ). 

 Heiberg saw the micrococci forming chains in the muscle 

 of the heart, in the detritus of the ulcerations of the 

 endocardium, in the plugs in the vessels of the spleen and 

 kidney. 



7. Micrococcus scarlatina. In scarlatina Coze and Feltz 8 

 described micrococci as occurring in the blood ; as I have 

 mentioned above, I have seen them in the ulcerations of 

 the throat, 9 and quite recently Pohl-Pincus 10 described very 

 minute micrococci adhering to the scales of the desquamating 

 epidermis in scarlatina. They form small colonies, and stain 



1 Medical News, No. 16, 1884. 



2 Centralb.f. d. med. Wiss. No. 16, 1883. 



3 Virchow's Archiv, vol. 56. 4 Ibid. vol. 62. 

 5 Ibid. vol. 57. G Ibid. vol. 72. 

 7 Archiv f. exp. Path. Bd. 9. 8 Malad. infect 

 9 Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council for 1876. 



10 Centralb.f. d. med. Wiss. No. 36, 1883. 



