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inter-spaces of their structure was examined microscopically, 
enormous quantities of the same endophyte were found as had 
been discovered in the jaw tumors and the so-called “ wooden- 
tongue.” 
Besides all these, in the tumors of cattle which the German 
farmers and dairymen named u throat-boils ” (, schlundbeulen ), 
and which appear in the vicinity of the parotid gland, larynx, 
and pharynx, and apparently have some relationship to the jaw 
tumors, the same nodules and organisms are found; they may be 
derived from the lymphatic glands in their neighborhood. In a 
case of supposed fibroid in the second compartment of a cow’s 
stomach, the tumor being about the size of a man’s fist and of a 
spongy nature, the fungus was found by Bollinger; as well as at 
the base of a gastric ulcer which was mistakenly supposed to be 
of a tuberculous character. 
In fixing upon this endophyte as the cause of the disease, 
through its destructive nature, and its tendency to produce new- 
formation growths (in this respect resembling the Chionphye 
Cavteri, which causes the u madura-foot” of the natives of India), 
Bollinger makes some remarks on the fungus, which had been 
carefully studied by the professor of botany at the Munich Vet¬ 
erinary School, Dr. Harz, who obtained it from fresh-specimens. 
The fungus found in the tumors from cattle form globular drussy 
tufts, from 0,11 millimetre in diameter. The majority of these 
tufts are aggregated in mulberry-shaped masses of from 0.5 to 1 
millimeter in diameter, and appear to the unaided eye as very 
minute dull-white granules. Very frequently the tufts are some¬ 
what calcareous, and then it is difficult to make out their compo¬ 
sition ; it is the same when the} 7 have become altered by lying 
for some time in alcohol. By a slight pressure made upon it, the 
fungus tuft is considerably altered in appearance, and mostly 
assumes the shape of a spheroidal segment, wherein some of the 
organisms can be distinctly traced throughout. The latter com¬ 
mence at the pointed end of the mass, with a somewhat cone- 
shaped base-cell, which may possibly represent the non-apparent 
mycelium, and which bears a large number of short-stalked 
hyphens. The end of the hyphen shows the Gonidiae, which are, 
