THE CORNEA 



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mens is in hanging-drop, or in some glycerine in which particles 

 taken from the cornea have been squeezed out. The preparation 



should not be stained. In sec- 

 tions the mould is best stained 

 by the Gram-Weigert method. 

 The aniline dyes are not so 



FlG. 67, A.SPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS 1 CULTURE. FlG. 63. MlLD FORM OF KlSRATO- 



, . MYCOSIS ASPERGILLINA 



Reproductive organs with the stengmata ; (FREIBURG CASE). 



comma fallen on. 



FIG. 69. KERATOMYCOSIS ASPERGILLINA. 

 Vegetable foreign body with mycelium. Case from the Freiburg clinic (c/. Kayser). 



good (the basufones being worst, especially the commonly-used Loffler's 

 methylene blue). 



1 From Plaut, 'Kolle-Wassermann Handbook,' 1903, vol. i., p. 559. 



