Volume 2

On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body : a manual of their natural history, diagnosis, and treatment / by Dr. Frederich Küchenmeister ; translated from the second German edition, by Edwin Lankester.

  • Küchenmeister, Friedrich, 1821-1890.
Date:
1857
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    What has been said concerning Pacini's fungus is also to be said concerning the fungus here mentioned, for the representation and descru! ion of which I am indebted to Professor R. Leuckart. The fungus was found in 1848 at Gottingen in the stomach of a dead JOO woman. The numerous ramifications of the threads had produced such a matting together, that a well-formed membrane was found on the mucous coat. The sporangia were ±f, the shaft or stalk T50 , the individual spores in diameter. The individual spores re- sembled yeast-cells. On the grounds mentioned above, for the present I shall give this fungus the name of Aspergillus Leuckartu Page 23l.—Mucor mucedo.-B.evv Hofrath Hasse in Heidel- berg, had the kindness to send me, through Dr. Wagner of Leipzig, a fungus found in the interior of a gangrenous abscess of the lung. Dr. Welcker determined the following principal facts, which I can only corroborate by the microscopical prepara- tion kindly sent me. It occurs in the form of thallus-threads about 0-308 mm. in length, by a breadth of from 0*0026 to 0-008 mm. The shaft always in- creases more in breadth towards the top = sporangium, till it attains in the round sporangium to a breadth of 0-025. mm. The stalk is hollow in the interior, so that if it is broken across, one can see within through its transparency, or if it becomes dried up in part, air finds its way into it, which is sometimes met with in the sporangium in the form of a small round bubble. The spores are 0 0036 to 40 mm. in length, and have in breadth a diameter of from 0 0015