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30. Still much inflammation, the ear is very warm, 

 fever intense. 



June 4. A capsular cataract is recognized, white, 

 milky, and glistening. 



5. Aspiration by means of Pravaz syringe. A white 

 membrane was obtained and examined under the micro- 

 scope. It contained a great number of pus corpuscles, 

 a very great quantity of highly refractive yellowish 

 bodies, resembling cryptococcus, and a small number of 

 bacteria. 



10. The inflammation is still considerable. 



Exp. III. — As a control experiment I made an in- 

 jection of distilled water into the eye of a rabbit. The 

 injection was well made, and, as in the preceding case, 

 a chemosis occurred. 



June 10. There has been no reaction of any sort, either 

 local or general, and it is impossible to distinguish the 

 eye into which the injection was made. 



The inflammatory properties of the micro-organ- 

 isms being demonstrated, we can easily understand 

 the pathology of an abces de voisinage, and we con- 

 ceive also the consecutive formation of new ab- 

 cesses as a result of the first. This is one of the 

 modes derived from a local process by which pu- 

 rulent infection is accomplished. 



As a general complication, we must mention the 

 penetration of the microbe into the blood, and the 

 possibility, thanks to this liquid, of the infectious 

 agent being transported to all the organs, where it 

 will form, either centres of softening and suppura- 

 tion, which have been called metastatic abcesses, 



