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any radially arranged bundles. He prefers to call the whole group 

 ' Trichomycetes ' (hair moulds). Lehmann and Neumann call them 

 ' Oospora,' Bostrom and others consider them as ' Pleomorphic 

 bacteria.' 



The important thing to be observed is that the cause of the disease 

 should not be restricted by the name applied to it, and that such a 

 name should not anticipate facts. If we include the whole group 

 under the term Actinomycctes (Lachner and Sandoval), we are quite 

 as correct as when we name the disease ' actinomycosis,' and thereby 

 at once imply that the cause is the common Actinomyces. Even the 

 name Actinomyces is not free from fallacy, for the name implies 

 that the mould can produce ray-formations ; it is still to be deter- 

 mined whether that is the case with all these moulds. 



It is impossible at the present to decide amongst these hypotheses. 

 By careful examination of future cases we can assist in their elucidation. 



LITEEATUEE.i 



AWERBACH, Wratsch, 1902, Nr. 49. A. f. A., 1904, Ed. 49, S. 316. 



AXENFELD, Bakteriologie des Auges in 'Ergebnisse,' von LUBARSCH u. OSTERTAG 



1894-1900. Ibid., K. M. f. A., January, 1901. 

 BAJARDI, Jubilaumsschr. f. Sperino. Torino, 1884. 

 BASEVI, Annali di Ottalniol., 1895, XXIV. 

 DE BERARDINIS, Ulcera corneale da streptothrix. Ann. di Ott., 1904, XXXIII, 



S. 385. 2 

 BLESSIG, IX. Pirogowscher Arzteverein. Westnik oft., 1904, XXI, Nr. 2 u. K. M. f. A., 



XLII, II, S. 176. 



BOLLINGER, Zentralbl. f. d. med. Wissensch., 1877. 



BOSTROM, Ziegler's Beitr. z. path. Anat. u. allg. Path., 1891, Bd. 9, S. 1. 

 BOURGEOIS, Eevue de Sud-Est, 1900. 



BUGIER, Recueil d'ophthal., 1874, p. 122 (Eef. in Nagels Jahresber. f. 1874, S. 527). 

 CAHN, Inaug. Dissert., Freiburg, 1903. 

 CAMUSET, Eev. clin. du Sud-Ouest, 1885, t. 3, p. 217 (Ref. in Nagels Jahresber. f. 



1882). 



CANNAS, N., Annali di Ottalmol., vol. 31, p. 606. 

 CAPELLINI, Archivio di Ottalmol., 1906, XIII, S. 238. 

 CARTAIS, Actinomycose des canalicules lacrymaux. These de Bordeaux, 1904. 



1 The rare true actinomycosis of the orbital tissues presents the appearance of a 

 granulating necrosis (cf. section on ' Orbit ') It is interesting to note that the transference 

 of a culture of Actinomyces into the anterior chamber of a rabbit often produces no result, 

 but in other animals it will produce a typical inflammation with the formation of ' drusen ' 

 (Mertens, loc. tit.). 



Morax and Manoulian found a filamentous mould, which they took to be Streptothrix, in 

 a nodular tumour of the eyebrow. 



Leopold Miiller's case is a unique example of a miliary nietastatic nodule of Actinomycctes 

 in the fundus (A'. M. f. A., 1903, i. 236). 



2 De Berardinis reports that he has several times found Ktrcptoihriccae, on the surface of 

 a corneal ulcer, and that with them, just as with two strains of the same organism from the 

 lung, he was- able to produce in the corneas of rabbits ulceration varying in severity 

 according to the depth and quantity of the material inoculated. 



