Guy's hospital : a case of pneumo-bacillary conjunctivitis / by J.W. Eyre ; under the care of Dr. Brailey.

  • John William Henry Eyre
Date:
[1897]
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Credit: Guy's hospital : a case of pneumo-bacillary conjunctivitis / by J.W. Eyre ; under the care of Dr. Brailey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    growth. From a consideration of these properties it seemed most probable that we were dealing with the pneumo-bacillus of Friedlander, and in order to confirm this opinion a small quantity of a twenty-four hours old agar culture was removed from the tube with a platinum spatula and introduced into the subcutaneous tissue at the root of the tail of a mouse weighing 20 grammes. Death ensued in forty-eight hours, and at the post-mortem examination the heart-blood was found to be crowded with the capsulated Friedlander’s bacillus. On several subsequent occasions cultures were made from the conjunctival secretion and from the material on the caruncle, with precisely similar results. Some of the actual material removed from the caruncle was also inoculated into the subcutaneous tissues of another mouse. Death followed in three days, and the Friedlander’s bacillus was recovered from the heart-blood. I am indebted to Dr. Brailey for permission to publish the notes of the case. PRINTED AT THE LANCET OFFICE. 423, STRAND, W.C.
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