Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria .. . late 11., fig. 1. Case III. (Lying-in Hospital.)—Most of the experimentswere made with the sample A, but some of the charactersof the others were also noted. The liquids were at firstnearly clear, with a little sediment, but large clusters offangi soon appeared, with the odour of decomj)osition. Somesolid matters were found which had escaped through thechannels in the filter. (One piece apparently a lump of fatmeat (undigested) measuring f x f X |-inch was preservedfor illustration.) It contained— Solid residue, per gallon - -
Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria .. . late 11., fig. 1. Case III. (Lying-in Hospital.)—Most of the experimentswere made with the sample A, but some of the charactersof the others were also noted. The liquids were at firstnearly clear, with a little sediment, but large clusters offangi soon appeared, with the odour of decomj)osition. Somesolid matters were found which had escaped through thechannels in the filter. (One piece apparently a lump of fatmeat (undigested) measuring f x f X |-inch was preservedfor illustration.) It contained— Solid residue, per gallon - - 9120 organic matter, do. - - 2560 „Mineral matter, do. - - - - 6560 „ It yielded carbonic acid, ammonia, and sulphuretted hydro-gen, and the same general conditions obtained which havebeen detailed under No. II. The microscopic examinationdetected the following organisms : Fibres of cotton, confervse, mucedinous fungi, spores,monads, various. Desmids—Micrasterias farcata, staurastrum Dickiei and Gibbons on Waters, Sf^c. Plate ,. V\\i 2.—YAN YEAN, —x 125 diaiii. Gibbons on Waters., •^c. Plate
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