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lung, spleen, cornea, in a case of panophthalmitis puerperalis, 

 and in the kidney, forming casts in the uriniferous tubules and 

 emboli in the blood-vessels. Laffler 1 found zooglcea 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 anosmia 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. Frankenhauser's 

 description makes it very difficult exactly to understand 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. 



11. 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. Micrococcus of acute infectious osteomyelitis. Dr. Becker 

 has made, in the laboratory of the Berlin Imperial Sanitary 

 Office, a series of important experiments on the micro-organisms 

 discovered by Schiiller and Rosenbach. He collected pus from 

 five cases of acute osteomyelitis in which the abscesses had not 

 been opened, and cultivated the micrococci contained in it on 

 sterilised potatoes, coagulated serum, and gelatine-peptone. 

 In the latter case, the pus was introduced by means of needles 

 into the mass, which was then kept at the temperature of the 

 room during three to five days. After that time, the puncture 

 made by the needles assumed the appearance of white streaks, 

 around which the gelatine liquefied gradually and took an 

 orange-colour. After a few days more, the mass gave out a 

 smell like sour paste, and the microscope revealed the presence 



1 Breslauer arztl. ZeitscJirift. 1880. 



a Centralb f. d med Wiss. No. 4. 1883. 3 Prager Viertelj. 1875 



Centralblattf d. med. Wiss. No. 13, 1881. 5 Ibid. No. 44, 1882. 



