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cylinders, partly filled with globules^ and partly covered with 
minute cylindrical processes. The fungus_, which occupied 
the entire of the interior of the eye^ was nearly colourless^ 
and consisted of fine and coarse fibres_, with clear and uniform 
contents. Other fibres^ more numerous_, were moniliform, 
with granular contents. There were also many free glo- 
bules (sporidia), which refracted the light strongly; these 
bodies resembled the cells of the ferment fangus of beer^ but 
were without nuclei. The most internal masses consisted of 
free sporidia, and some fibres with the appearance of rows 
of globules. Hannover believes that, prior to the establish- 
ment of the disease which led to the destruction of this 
eye, there must have been the introduction of a spore of the 
plants through some portion of its external coat. 
Helmbrecht relates another case, of a clergyman who came 
under his care for an inflammation in both eyes, after the 
cessation of which he had a constant movement of some 
body in the left eye, and muscse volitantes in the right ; the 
latter got well, while the object in the former remained, and, 
after a fall from his carriage, the figure became free. 
Helmbrecht now made a puncture in the lower part of the 
junction of the cornea and sclerotic. A fluid escaped, in 
which was found a branched mass, consisting of confervoid 
cells and rows of spores."^ 
Spilus. 
In the two following cases the moles were not congenital, 
but growing larger every month. 
Case 1. — Dark-brown moles about the clavicular and 
cervical regions, prominent, adherent, increasing. Hairs 
with peculiar masses of pigment surrounding the shaft of 
the hair in tufts, with granular matter. 
Case 2. — Female child. Numerous moles on shoulders, 
axillae, groins, &c. ; dark coloured, prominent, rapidly 
growing. Very fine filaments, of a dark fungoid growth, 
covering the surface of masses of epithelial scales. A few 
spores scattered about. 
Impetigo and Furunculus. 
These diseases, as far as I have been able to examine them, 
exhibited nothing but scrofulous-looking pus-corpuscles, with 
epithelial scales, and are properly described as : — 
" Pustules with an elevation of the cuticle, with an inflamed 
* Dr. Kiichennieister's 'Animal and Vegetable Parasites.' Sydenham 
Society, 1857. Translated by Dr. Lankcster. 
