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forms spores, and thrives in sterilized urine. In its morphological 
characters and pathological properties this organism is apparently 
identical with the influenza microbe described by Roux, Pittion, and 
Teissier. Intravenous injections showed that the urine of influenza 
patients contained specific toxic substances, and these toxines were also 
sought for in the sputum and in cultures sterilised with naphthol, &c. 
Such cultures killed rabbits in doses of 13 ccm. per kilo weight of animal. 
The author concludes from this that influenza is an intoxication from the 
soluble products of the organism. 
New Vibrio from Sputum.* — Dr. Brin has found in the sputum of 
a case of pneumonia both Fraenkel’s pneumococcus and a new vibrio. 
He describes its growth on various media, its morphology, its staining 
reaction, and the results of experiments on animals. To guinea-pigs it 
was but slightly virulent, and to mice not at all. 
Tonsils as Site of Entry for Suppurative Micro-organisms.f — 
According to Dr. Buschke, suppurative organisms often gain access to 
the body through the tonsils, and he quotes four cases in support of his 
assertion. The first was a simple fracture of the middle of the shaft 
of the humerus. In the course of the third week, when the fracture was 
fairly well united, a sore throat (follicular tonsilitis) developed, and in 
the tonsilar crypts Streptococcus longus, almost in pure cultivation, was 
found. On the third day of the tonsilitis the streptococcus was detected 
in the blood. On the fourth there was a rigor, followed by suppurative 
osteomyelitis and periostitis in the pus, from which crowds of the same 
streptococcus were found. The other three cases are less convincing. 
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B rieger, L. — Weitere Erfahrungen iiber Bakteriengifte. (Further Experiments 
on Bacterial Poisons.) Zeitschr. f. Hygiene , XIX. (1895) pp. 101-12. 
C api tan — L e role des microbes dans la societe. (The role of Microbes in Society.) 
Hoc. d' Anthropologic de Paris , IV. (1895) p. 763. 
De Ha an, J. — Bacterie-toxinen en antitoxinen. (Bacterial Toxins and Anti- 
toxins.) Haarlem, 1894, 8vo, 26 pp, 
Feltz, L. — De l’exaltation de la virulence du bacille charbon et du staphylocoque 
dore par les produits filtres du bacterium coli. (Increase of the Virulenccjof 
Bacillus anthracis and Staphylococcus aureus by the filtered products of B. coli.') 
Compt. Bend. Soc. Biol., 1894, pp. 814-5, 
Ferrier — C onsiderations generates sur le pleomorphisme des cils vibratiles de 
quelques bacteries mobiles. (General Considerations on the Pleomorphism of the 
Vibratile Cilia of some Mobile Bacteria.) Arch. Med. Exper ., 1895, pp. 58-75. 
Fraenkel, C. — Eine morphologische Eigentiimlichkeit des Diphtheriebacillus. 
(A Morphological Peculiarity of the Diphtheria-bacillus.) 
Hygien. Rundschau, 1895, pp. 349-50. 
Freund, A. — Der Kampf gegen die Bakterien. (The Struggle with Bacteria.) 
Gesundheit, 1895, pp. 33-5, 19-51. 
* Hygienische Rundschau, 18.14, No. 20. See Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. u. Para- 
sitenk, l te Abt., xvii. (1895) p. 470. 
t Deutsche Zeitschr. f. Chirurgie, 1894. See Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. u. Para- 
sitenk., l te Abt., xvii. (1895) pp. 369-70. 
