CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PUS FROM DIFFERENT AGENCIES.
Staphylococcus.—Dirty white, moderately thick, with sour-paste odor.
Streptococcus.—Thin, white, often with shreds of tissue.
Colon Bacillus.—Thick, brownish, with fetid odor, or thin, dirty white, with thicker masses.
Micrococcus Lanceolatus.—Thin, watery, greenish, often copious.
Bacillus Pyocyaneus.—Distinctly green or blue in tint.
Bacillus Tuberculosis.—Thick, curdy, white paste, or thin, greenish, with small, cheesy lumps or even with bone spicules.
Actinomycis.—Thick, brownish white, with small, firm, gritty or chalky nodules of yellow color.
Ameba Coli.—Thick, brownish red.