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On the other hand Cornil, and particularly MM. Alvarez 

 and Tavel, state that a bacillus identical in mode of stain- 

 ing, size, and aspect with the one described by Lustgarten 

 as the specific syphilis-bacillus, has been found by them in 

 some normal secretions [Brit. Med. Journ., Oct. 17, 1885). 

 Klemperer, Zeissl, Baumgarten, and others have failed to find 

 Lustgarten's bacilli in syphilis materials. 



Bacillus of Foulbrood. — Messrs. F. Cheshire and Watson 

 Cheyne described {Microsc. Journ., August, 1885) a peculiar 

 bacillus, bacillus alvei, which occurs in the tissues and juices 

 of bees, and especially their larvse, which sometimes in bee- 

 hives become affected with, and die of, the disease known 

 as " foulbrood." This bacillus shows certain peculiarities 

 in its mode of growth in nutritive gelatine and Agar-Agar, 

 and is capable of forming spores. With such cultivations 

 the disease was reproduced in healthy bees. 



Bacillus of Rhino scleroma. — A. von Frisch 1 was the first 

 to show that in the tissue of rhinoscleroma, particularly in 

 the large hyaline cells, known as " Mikulicz cells," there 

 occur small oval bacilli, either singly or as dumb-bells. He 

 cultivated them and used them for inoculations on animals, 

 but without result. Cornil and Alvarez ^ then showed that 

 the rhinosclerom bacilli possess a gelatinous capsule, and 

 therefore resemble the pneumonia bacilli of Friedlander {see 

 a former chapter). Dittrich has then made extended 

 experiments and observations on these rhinosclerom bacilli, 

 and showed that morphologically and culturally they are 

 distinguishable, but only with difiSculty, from Friedlander's 

 bacilli ; though he maintains that in some minute details 

 as to staining and as to appearance in gelatine cultures the 

 two can be distinguished from each other. This is, how- 



^ ]Viener Med. Wochenschrift, No. 32, 1882. 



^ Archives de Phydologie not )nalc et path., vi., 1885. 



