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Title: An atlas of clinical microscopy
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Peyer, Alexander Girard, Alfred Conrad, 1841-1914, ed. and tr
Subjects: Medical microscopy Microscopy
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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s, but neither microscopicallynor macroscopically do they show much difference. The first and most frequent form is the old chronic gonorrhoea;this is represented on Plates 51, 52, 53, and 54. On Plate 51 we see a long, thin, and a tolerably broad gonor-rhoeal thread, which both consist entirely of mucus and pus-cells. These threads are elastic and transparent when the mucous partpreponderates; when the cellular elements occur in excess, thethreads are opaque and fragile. On Plate 52 we find the pus-cells mixed with round or ovalepithelium of various sizes. Plate 53 represents a gonorrhoeal thread with spermatozoidsimbedded. As pertinent to this picture we must remark that sper-matorrhoea is rarely a consequence of gonorrhoea, although the twoare quite frequently found co-existing. Usually the patient, before acquiring the gonorrhoea, had been aslave to masturbation for some time, and had already suffered fromspermatorrhoea, or, at least, debility of the sexual organs. Thus I PLATE 51
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Mey.gcr lilh Gonormoeal threads (witliout epithelium Peyers microscopy. PLATE 52

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