Football impetigo : an enquiry into contagious affection of the skin occurring amongst football players a paper read before the Association on 10th December, 1895 / by H.G. Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, H. G. (Henry George)
Date:
1896
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Credit: Football impetigo : an enquiry into contagious affection of the skin occurring amongst football players a paper read before the Association on 10th December, 1895 / by H.G. Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. REPORT ON CULTURES AND OTHER SPECIMENS FROM CASES OF SKIN DISEASE UNDER THE CARE OF H. G. ARMSTRONG, Esq., WELLINGTON COLLEGE. The order adopted in this report is first to describe in detail the results of the examination of the specimens from the individual cases, and subsequently to formulate the conclusions which appear to result from these examinations. In all, six cases were examined, though from some of these many specimens were obtained. Case I. (M—e).—From this patient a culture was made directly from the scab on glycerine-agar. The tube was incubated at a temperature of 25° C. In two days a small, somewhat indefinite growth was observed, which proved, on microscopic examination, to consist of small cocci in groups. A sub-culture was made from this on glycerine-agar, and in a few days a considerable number of colonies appeared, which assumed a yellow pigm entation. This organism on subsequent cultivation was found to liquefy gelatine, and proved to be the staphylococcus pyogenes aureus. Case II. (R—y).—From this case the cultivation was made from a vesicle on glycerine-agar, and treated in the same way as Case I. Colonies resulted from this culture, which remained white on subsequent cultivation and in the original cultures; these also liquefied gelatine, and on microscopic examination proved to consist of cocci arranged in groups, thus showing the peculiarities of the staphy¬ lococcus pyogenes albus. Case III. (H—e). — The culture from this case was brought to the laboratory having been made on blood serum. An impure growth resulted, and from this sub-cultures
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