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all probability, be the result of one of the three follow- 

 ing forms of infection : 



a. Septicaemia resulting from the introduction into 

 the tissues of bacterium pneumonice. 



b. A form of septicaemia resulting from the introduc- 

 tion of sarcina tetragena, an organism frequently seen in 

 the sputum of tuberculous subjects. 



c. Local or general tuberculosis. 



FIG. 61. 



s ' 



***' ;! 



a 



/ 



Tuberculous sputum stained by Gubbett's method. Tubercle bacteria seen 

 as red rods ; all else is stained blue. 



SPUTUM SEPTICAEMIA. 



BACTERIUM PNEUMONIA (\VEICHSELBAUM), MIGULA, 

 1900. 



Syuonyms: Diplococcus pneumonise, Weichselbaum, 1886; Pneumo- 

 coccus, Frankel, 1886 ; Micrococcus of sputum septicaemia ; Diplococcus 

 lanceolatus ; Streptococcus lanceolatus ; Streptococcus pasteuri ; Micro- 

 coccus lanceolatus. 



If at the end of twenty-four to thirty-six hours the 

 animal be found dead, we may reasonably predict that 

 the result was produced by the introduction into the tis- 

 sues of the organism of sputum septicaemia above men- 

 tioned, viz., bacterium pneumonia;, which is not uncom- 



