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detached epithelial cells and lymph-corpuscles, numerous 

 bacteria belonging to different species of micrococci and 

 bacilli. Some there are amongst them which are comma- 

 shaped, i.e., curved, cylindrical rods, single or double, or 

 S-shaped ; they are motile, spinning round or moving in a 

 spiral; they are of different lengths and of different amount of 

 curvature, but, as cultivation experiments show, belong all to 



Fig. 169. — Film Specimen (.if a Flake of the Rice-water Fluid of a 

 Dii'FERENj- Case. 



the same species : namely, the comma bacilli, or vibrios or 

 spirilla of Koch, discovered by him as constantly present in 

 the acute stages of cholera Asiatica, and as showing definite 

 cultural characters. 1 There exist, however, considerable 

 differences with regard to the number of these comma bacilli 



^ Conferenz zur Erortcrung dtr Cholerafi'age, BtTliiicr kl. Woch. 

 31, 1SS4. 



