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Fungus discovered by Duncker in swine flesh. Looking at the drawings, the 
appearances certainly rather suggest crystalline formations than fungus growths. 
They were accompanied by remarkably little inflammatory reaction, and treatment 
with acid caused the fungus bodies to disappear. In 1901, Mr. Paul, 1 in a paper 
upon chronic mastitis, mentions four cases, which on section showed bodies resembling 
those met with in actinomycosis. As previously mentioned, I regarded them 
rather as of the nature of degeneration products, and a Committee of the Patho- 
logical Society, subsequently appointed to examine the sections, concluded that the 
striated bodies were due to cell degeneration. 
My thanks are due to Dr. Griffith, the Alexander Fellow, for cutting and 
staining the sections. 
1. Paul. Chronic mastitis in its relation to tumour formation. Pro. Path. Soc, Vol. 52, Part I, 1901. 
