Fistula in ano in phthisis, and actinomycosis bovis / by Heneage Gibbes.

  • Gibbes, Heneage, -1912.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: Fistula in ano in phthisis, and actinomycosis bovis / by Heneage Gibbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    (iLHHKS—ACTINOMYCO.SIS H<)\'rs ( explain it. They wero taken with one of K. & J. Beck''K r,, in. magnifi- cation 130 diameters. In tlie one a miisele tilire is cut longitudinally', and has the mycelium occupying its centres; the other shows a fibre cut transversely. The appearances presented by these libres are ex- actly simihir to what have been described as Rainey's or Miescher's corpuscles. Ziegler, Vol. I., psige 346 (English edition), says: Our knowledge of the organisms known as 'Miescher's corpuscles' or Rainey's cor- puscles ' is still very defective. They are cylindrical or tube-like l)odies, found not infrcepiently in the muscles of the pig, ox, sheep and mouse. They contain an innumerable multitude of small oval and reniform corpuscles. .... Portion of the Tongue of a Cow X l3o. Transverse Section. Claus,Text-book of Zoology,Protozoa,page 208, gives an illustration which IS, 1 thmk, exactly similar to that I have described. He says, in describmg the illustration: Rainey's corpuscle from the flesh of a pig: {a) an animal inside a muscular fibre. He describes spores in a part more highly magnified The appearance presented by sections of these muscle fibres are those that would be shown, when examined wifh