Vin'cent's an'gin a

[H. Vincent, Paris i an physician, *i862.] Ulceromembranous angina; inflammation of the tonsil characterized by a pseudo membranous exudate and subsequent ulceration, accompanied>by painful swelling of the neighboring lymphatic nodes, fever, and other -signs of . systemic infection; a fusiform bacillusC?) and a protozoan organism, S'pirochtEta angints vincent i, both po ibly forms of one and the same trypanosome, have been found in the lesion. V.'s bacill'- us, a fusiform organism, about 10 or 12 /i in length, not cultivable on the usual media. Gram negative, found in cases of V.'s angina in a ociation -with a spirochete. V.'s spiril'lum, the spirillum or spirochete foimd in a ociation -with V.'s bacillus.