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careful microscopiCtil examination, the tissue being cut fresh or 

 in a hardened state. For staining \vc used, in most cases, ZiehF s 

 fuchsin and Locffiers methylene blue. We always found in the 

 content of farcy boils, certain kinds of cocci. In the stained 

 preparation of tissue we could not clearly demonstrate the 

 presence of any special kind of bacilli, which might be considered 

 as pathogenic, except an irregular heap of grains, which was, 

 as later on ascertained by the author, an aggregation of 

 sacc/iaroinyces usually present in the morbid matter of Japanese 

 farcy — it has since been found in all alcoholic specimens col- 

 lected in Sendai. Only in one case, CASK IX, have we succeeded 

 in raising a pure culture of bacilli, which may be considered as 

 identical with Scliiitrs-Loefflcr' s bacillus. Thus out of 15 cases, 

 one was true glanders, while the remaining 14 were of a saccharo- 

 mycotic nature. 



Case xix. 



JMack stalli<jn of Japanese breed, 16 }-ears old, observ^ed 

 during Nov.-Dec, '89. 



Clinical appearance : — Condition Ijad and meagre, muco- 

 purulent discharge from both nostrils; skin of the intermaxillary 

 space thickened and hairless ; the intermaxillary gland not 

 swollen ; no farc\" changes in the skin. 



Poslmortem appearance : — Skin and subcutis free from farcy, 

 lioth anterior lobes of lungs in p.irtial hepatization, with many 

 miliary to walnut-sized irregular nodules and abscesses. On the 

 left side o{ sepluni nasi ulcers of linseed to coin size ; these ulcers 

 were hollow with indurateil bottoms and borders, which looked 

 yellowish white and lardy. 



Inoculation of guinea pig Xo. 45, on Nov. 29th, with nasal 

 discharge. On the next day appeared a local swelling, 

 which turned to a bad ulcer ; plica gland swollen. On the 

 seventh da}- the animal was dissected. Postmortcni section 

 revealed a suppurative lierd in the plica gland. Culture ex- 

 periment was positive : we obtained from the pus a pure 

 culture of bacillus mallei. Another guinea pig Xo. 46 was 

 similarly inoculated, and the reaction was nearly tlie same as in 



