8o MICRO-ORGANISMS AND DISEASE. [CHAP. 



puerperalis, and in the kidney, forming casts in the urini- 

 ferous tubules and emboli in the blood-vessels. Laffler 1 

 found zoogloea and chains of micrococci in two cases of 

 puerperal fever associated with brain-softening. In both 

 cases emboli, due to micrococci, were found in the 

 surroundings of the softened part of the brain. Emboli 

 of micrococci were also here found in the vessels of the 

 kidney. 



10. In pernicious ancemia Frankenhauser 2 described the 

 occurrence of micrococci (?) in the blood of pregnant women 

 suffering from this anaemia, not uncommon in Zurich. These 

 micrococci were very large, about one-tenth of the broad 

 diameter of a red blood-corpuscle, and some were provided 

 with a flagellum (?). Some were divided in two. In the 

 blood of the liver they occurred in large numbers. Franken- 

 hauser's description makes it very difficult exactly to under- 

 stand what he saw. He also states that these micrococci 

 were probably derived from decayed teeth, from which all 

 his patients suffered. 



Eppinger 3 described micrococci as occurring in acute 

 yellow atrophy of the liver. 



IT. In the syphilitic mucous patches of several patients 

 Aufrecht found a micrococcus, forming generally dumb-bells 

 and staining very deeply in fuchsin. 4 Birch-Hirschfeld 5 

 confirmed this. 



12. Microcoaus of acute infectious osteomyelitis. Dr. Becker 

 has made, in the laboratory of the Berlin Imperial Sanitary 



1 Breslauer drztl. Zeitschrift, 1880. 



2 Centralb.f. d. med. Wiss. No. 4, 1883. 



3 Prager Viertelj. 1875. 



4 Centralb.f. d. med. Wiss. No. 13, 1881. 

 6 Ibid. No. 44, 1882. 



