Fig. 1.—Cross section of an atrophic muscle, growth of nuclei in the perimysium. Low power.
Fig. 2.—Cross section of an atrophic muscle with great development of connective tissue. Low power.
Fig. 3.—Proliferation of the nuclei of the perimysium. High power.
Plate XIII.
[1] See Neisser: Lepra in Ziemssen’s Handbook.
[2] Unna, zur Histologie der Leprösenhaut; in Leprastudien, Monatshefte für practische Dermatologie, Ergänzhungsheft, 1885.
[3] In a nodule, with exudation, which we have recently examined, we have found bacilli in the epithelium, and there are in several places distinct leucocytic nuclei in the bacillary groups, thus showing emigrated cells with bacilli in the epithelium.
[4] Just as the manuscript of this treatise was completed, a year and a half ago, we obtained at an autopsy a lung in which there was tuberculosis, but at the same time probably leprosy also. Most unfortunately the bronchial glands were not preserved for microscopical examination. Dr. Lie also permits me to state that he has found leprosy bacilli in two kidneys and in one lung. He had diagnosed tuberculosis of the lung, but at the autopsy he found only an indurating pneumonia, containing lepra bacilli, and no tuberculosis. In the kidneys, of the same case, he found lepra bacilli in the glomeruli, and in the interstices between the cortical tubules. He will describe the case more fully later. This is a mere preliminary note.
[5] Virchow’s Archiv, Bd. C. III.