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pale conturns. The external pus presented pus corpuscles in 
abundance, while the internal had none. It was like a greasy 
paste of furuncular organism. And it is a remarkable fact that 
in less than six hours afterwards, the sowing of the liquids of 
culture was followed by the development of the small organism. 
I saw then that it was exactly that of the furuncles. The diam¬ 
eter of the grains was found to be one thousandth of a millimeter. 
If I would dare so to express it, I would say that, in this case 
at least, the osteomyelitis was a furuncle of the marrow of the 
bone. It would be easy, no doubt, to develop artificially oste¬ 
omyelitis upon living animals. 
Section III. —Upon Pcerpural Fever. 
First Observation .—March 12th, 1878, Dr. Hervieux had the 
kindness to receive me in his service at the Maternity, to visit a 
woman, delivered within a few days, and who was affected with a 
serious puerpural fever. The discharges were most fetid. I 
found them full of microscopic organisms of various kinds. From 
a puncture on the index finger of the left hand, which had been 
carefully washed and wiped with a jiambe (scorched) cloth, some 
blood was collected and sowed in bouillon of muscle of chickens. 
The following day the culture remained sterile. 
On the 13th another collection of blood was obtained from a 
puncture of the finger. This time it proved fecund. Death hav¬ 
ing taken place on the 16th, at 6 A. M., it was shown that the 
blood contained a cultivable microscopic parasite, three days at 
least before death. 
On the 15th of March, eighteen hours before death, blood 
was taken from the left foot, and its culture proved to be fecund. 
The first culture of the 13th contained only the organism of 
the furuncles; the culture of the 15th contained one somewhat 
similar to that of the furuncles, but presenting differences easily 
to be distinguished. Indeed, while the parasite of the furuncles 
is by couples, or were rarely gathered in little masses of three or 
four grains, that of the culture of the 15th was in long chapelets, 
with a variable number of grains. These chapelets were flexible 
and intermixed together. 
