PART II.] 



Nature of the Miliary Particles. 



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continuous pressure. In the accompanying woodcut (Fig. 19) one of these miliary 

 particles is depicted as seen under a comparatively low power. It is manifestly an 

 aborted hair follicle, a portion of the disintegrated hair being plainly distinguishable 

 in the centre of the mass. The adjoining figure represents the same millet seed- 

 like particle as seen after being crushed beneath the cover-glass. The application 

 of a higher power made it evident that we were dealing with disintegrating epithelial 

 elements. 



It is, however, by no means invariably possible to distinguish the remains of a 

 hair in these little particles, and sometimes it seems as if they consisted of firmly 

 compressed plugs {comiedones) thrown out of the sebaceous follicles, or even of the 

 disintegrated cast-off follicles themselves. As far as ourjexperience goes, the presence 



Fig. 19.— Miliary particle from the surface of a " Delhi Sore" x 60. 

 Fig. 20.— As Fig. 19 crushed between the cover-glass and slide x 60. 



of these little miliary particles of various composition is far from being a prominent 

 feature in the generality of cases. 



No other objects presented themselves to us as existing on the surface of the 

 sores, or embedded in the secretion which covered it. We examined most carefully 

 numerous sores in order to satisfy ourselves very thoroughly regarding this point, 

 but nothing which appeared to us to be worthy of note could be found that could not 

 be referred to contact with extraneous substances. Of the latter, however, endless 

 objects might have been described, as may readily be inferred, considering the 

 liability of such a surface to dirt. 



Miliary particles, such as we have just described, are common to numerous 

 cutaneous affections; and with regard to the limphoid corpuscles, it may be, we 

 think, safely said that they are indistinguishable optically from similar bodies 

 encountered in numerous other allied morbid conditions. The evidence afforded by 



