Medical and surgical report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . n March 20, the weight diminished to fifty-eight ounceson the 25th; to fifty-one ounces on the 30th; to forty-six ounceson April i; and to forty ounces on the 6th, when the rabbit waskilled. Autopsy.—The body is extremely emaciated. There is a fluctuatingswelling around the right elbow-joint, which is found to contain athick, tenacious, mucoid fluid like that described above. No othersuperficial swellings are found. There is no trace of subcutaneous skeletal muscles show many minute white tubercles scatt
Medical and surgical report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . n March 20, the weight diminished to fifty-eight ounceson the 25th; to fifty-one ounces on the 30th; to forty-six ounceson April i; and to forty ounces on the 6th, when the rabbit waskilled. Autopsy.—The body is extremely emaciated. There is a fluctuatingswelling around the right elbow-joint, which is found to contain athick, tenacious, mucoid fluid like that described above. No othersuperficial swellings are found. There is no trace of subcutaneous skeletal muscles show many minute white tubercles scatteredover their surfaces and throughout their entire substance. These aremostly round, but many are somewhat elongated in the direction of thefibres. The surface of the heart is thickly dotted with minute roundedtubercles, which project beneath the pericardium. They are also foundin the substance of the muscle. The lungs show just underneath thepleura an immense number of these tubercles, which give a shot-likefeeling as the finger passes over them. They are found to be evenly. Fig. 7.—Lungs, heart, liver and kidneys of rabbit, showing strci)tolhrix tubercle 164 STREPTOTHRIX INFECTION. distributed throughout both lungs. The abdominal cavity containsno adipose. The stomach contains some food. The peritoneum,both parietal and visceral, is studded with tubercles. The liver andkidneys show both on the surface and on section immense numbers oftubercles. In short, practically every tissue and organ of the bodycontained a greater or smaller number of these minute bodies, whichclosely resembled ordinary miliary tubercles, but were possibly a littlewhiter and more opaque. No abscesses were found. The characterand distribution of the lesions were the same in all of the rabbits inocu-lated in this way, and emaciation was always extreme. The numberof tubercles found in different animals varied considerably, but thekidneys in every case showed the most pronounced infection. In everycase
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