Bacteriology for nurses / [Isabel McIsaac].

  • Isabel McIsaac
Date:
1914
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Credit: Bacteriology for nurses / [Isabel McIsaac]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    work painted or varnished, mattresses and pillows discarded, bed and body clothing sterilized, all toys and books destroyed, and the ward may stand empty for a month, open to the sun and air; and when opened, with only new patients and new nurses, a fresh epidemic will occur within a fortnight, and worse than all, this process may have to be repeated three or four times, covering a period of months, while every doctor and nurse in the hospital is exer- cising every possible precaution which intelligence and ingenuity can contrive, to control it. A gonococcus vaccine has been employed for gono- rrhoeal rheumatism, with favorable results. The lower animals are not susceptible to infection from the gonococcus, although the injection of the poisonous products contained in cultures have caused death in some animals. The gonococci do not in- vade the tissues of the lower animals. Syphilis Syphilis is a chronic infectious disease character- ized by certain lesions of which the chancre, the gumma, and the mucous patch are the most destruc- tive. Syphilis is liable or may infect any or every tissue of the body. Efforts to identify the microorganism
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