This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...appearing as if composed of bacilli. The free ends only seem to be endowed with the ability to reproduce, and they develop peculiar elements that differentiate the higher from the other bacteria, whose cells are all equally free and independent. Leptothrix.--These comprise long threads which do not branch, and are at ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...appearing as if composed of bacilli. The free ends only seem to be endowed with the ability to reproduce, and they develop peculiar elements that differentiate the higher from the other bacteria, whose cells are all equally free and independent. Leptothrix.--These comprise long threads which do not branch, and are at times separated with difficulty from chains of bacilli. They rarely cause trouble, but have been observed in connection with inflammations of the mouth and pharynx, particularly along the edges of the tonsillar crypts, where they grow with the formation of persistent white patches. Cultivation of the leptothrix is difficult. Cladothrix is a thread-like form in which false branching may be recognized, an 'appearance resulting from the fragmentation of the threads. The terminal cell breaks away from the main stem, is set at an angle by the elongation of the thread itself, and, as both continue to divide, the simulation of true branching is produced. This type is probably not pathogenic; most of the cases ascribed to this class were likely due to streptothrix infection. Streptothrix denotes forms with numerous true branches and spores which usually appear in chains. Numerous cases of disease have been reported as being caused by these organisms. Actinomyces is characterized by the formation of club-shaped ends and the radiating arrangement of the threads. This organism causes a specific disease of the lower animals, sometimes transmitted to the human being. BACTERIA Bacteria are minute unicellular organisms, probably belonging to the vegetable kingdom, the schizomycetes. It is difficult to classify them, but probably the best arrangement is a modification of Migula's method as follows: CLASSIFICATION OF THE BACTERIA I. ORDER: EUBACTERIA (True Bact...
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