DE N A OLE

(AFTER MARCH AND [A, 3 ose p ts pel n op Knochenwurm, Strahlenpilzerkrankung. actinomi-, ctinomicosis. An infections disease of caitle, first deseribed by Bollinger, characterized mainly by tumor-like growths of the jaws, due to the lodgment and growth of the Actinomyces bovis. ‘The substance of the tumors, which spring mostly from the alveoli of the lower molars, resembles that of certain sarcomata in having a granulation-like structure, but the growths contain absce -like cavities Inclosing sulphur-yellow bodies consisting of felted ma es ‘of the mycelia of the Actinomyces, ‘The disease has also been ob- Served in man, in connection with sinuses leading to the sockets of the teeth, or first making its ay inee in the internal orbine,, (APT wan: cans. Itis chronic in its course, and, when CHAND [A, 319].) t begins in the Jaw, is prone 10 extend by continuity to thé neck, the chest, or the vertebræ, and to end fatally. [Bolloger, Ponlick (ahstr. ta Belt Med. Jour.,” April 15, 188%); March and (A, 319); J. B. Murphy, Wurm, cos i.