Clinical diagnosis : the bacteriological, chemical, and microscopical evidence of disease . food :— 1. Muscle fibres, readily recognisable by their transverse striation. 2. Fatty globules and fat-needles, which are sufficiently characterisedby their refracting property and their solubility in aether. 3. Elastic fibres and connective tissue. 4. Starch granules, to be recognised by their concentric arrangement [* It is, however, doubtful if there is an emulsifying ferment.] MOULD-FUNGI—YEASTS 173 and by their property of staining blue with iodo-potassic-iodicle bodies are frequent
Clinical diagnosis : the bacteriological, chemical, and microscopical evidence of disease . food :— 1. Muscle fibres, readily recognisable by their transverse striation. 2. Fatty globules and fat-needles, which are sufficiently characterisedby their refracting property and their solubility in aether. 3. Elastic fibres and connective tissue. 4. Starch granules, to be recognised by their concentric arrangement [* It is, however, doubtful if there is an emulsifying ferment.] MOULD-FUNGI—YEASTS 173 and by their property of staining blue with iodo-potassic-iodicle bodies are frequently disintegrated and more or less dissolved bythe process of digestion. 5. Vegetable cells of various forms. In addition, the vomit in disease displays a great variety of fungoidgrowths (W. de Bary141), depending upon the nature of the underlyingprocess. Amongst these :— 1. Mould-Fungi and scattered gonidia have occasionally been are, so far as we know, devoid of pathological significance. 2. Yeasts.—(a) Saccharomyces cerevisise. These are about the size ?L #®^ m. J?ig. 67.—Collective View of Vomited Matter (eye-piece III., objective 8a, Reichert). a. Muscle fibres. b. White blood-corpuscles. c. c. Squamous epithelium,c. Columnar epithelium. d. Starch grains, mostly al- ready changed by theaction of the digestivejuices. e. Fat globules. /. Sarcina ventriculi. g. Yeast-fungi. h. Forms resembling the com-ma-bacillus, found by theauthor once in the vomitof intestinal obstruction. i. Various micro - organisms,such as bacilli and micro-cocci. V^iW I: Fat-needles ; between themconnective tissue derivedfrom the food. I. Vegetable cells. of leucocytes, and refract light powerfully. They cohere in groups ofthree or more, and stain deeply a brownish-yellow with iodine and iodideof potassium. Very often there are also to be seen elliptical bodiesresembling Saccharomyces ellipsoideus (Rees).U2 (b.) Very small yeast-like fungi in thick clusters (fig. 67, g). (c.) More
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