VII.] 



MICROCOCCUS. 



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up in a chest, were compelled to breathe an atmosphere satu- 

 rated by means of a spray with the micrococcus pneumonise, a 

 number of them died from pneumonia and pleurisy, but not 

 till the fourth or fifth day. 



Fro. 21. FROM A SECTION THROUGH THE HUMAN LUNO IN ACUTE CROUPOUS 



PSEUMONia. 



Three capillary vessels filled with Wood are seen surrounding an alveolus which 

 is filled with fibrin and blood-corpuscles, amongst them chains of 



mierocoeci. 

 Magnifying power 700. (Stained with gentian violet.) 



Bruylants and Venders l assert that they have successfully 

 cultivated the mierocoeci of pleuro-pneumonia of cattle. 



More recently 2 T. Poels and Dr. W. Nolen, in Rotterdam, 

 assert that they have ascertained that in pleuro-pneumonia of 

 cattle the pulmonary exudations contain micrococci, which in 

 their morphology and mode of growth in artificial cultures 



Bull. Ss I'Acad. Belg. 1880. 

 Crntralb. f. d. med. Wiss. No. 9, 1S84. 



