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some of the long filaments the individual bacilli are not well 

 shown. The filaments are either straight or more or less 

 curved. The length of the single bacilli varies from 0'004 mm. 

 or less to O'OOS mm. or more ; the thickness is about O'OOl mm. 

 Many of them contain spores. In the ear of the rabbit they 

 invade the connective tissue as well as the cartilage over the 

 whole extent of the ulceration and its neighbourhood. Mr. 



Fio 56 FROM A SECTION THROUGH THE CARTILAGE or BABBIT'S EAR IN WHICH 

 ULCERATION HAD BEEN PRODUCED BY INOCULATION WITH NECROSED MATTER OF 

 CALF'S TONGUE. 



1. Cartilage capsnles. 



2. Bundles of good bacilli. 



3. Bundles of degenerating bacilli. 

 Magnifying power 700. (Stained with magenta.) 



Lingard found the same bacilli, having the same arrangement, 

 in a case of noma in the human subject. 



(g} Bacillus of glanders. In 1882 Schiitz and LofHer 1 ascer- 

 tained the occurrence of peculiar bacilli in the nodules of the 

 nasal mucous membrane and internal organs, such as the lung, 

 spleen, and liver, of horses dead or dying from glanders. 



1 Deutsche mcd. Wochenschrift, 52, 1SS2. 



