Catarrhal fevers : commonly called colds their causes, consequences, control, and cure / R. Prosser White.

  • White, R. Prosser (Robert Prosser), 1855-1934.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Catarrhal fevers : commonly called colds their causes, consequences, control, and cure / R. Prosser White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Benham of the Stephen Kalli Memorial Sussex Hospital, who is working at the bacteriology of colds, in a preliminary note in the British Medical Journal, December 30, 1905, says he failed to isolate the Micrococcus catarrhalis and Pfeiffer’s bacillus in only a few cases. Other organisms noted are strepto- cocci, staphylococci, diplococci (gram -i-), diplobacilli, streptothrix, some groups of very minute cocci which do not take Gram stain. He read a paper ^ before the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society, reported in the Lancet, March 17,1906. Dr. Benham has kindly permitted me to append his abstract of this valuable paper prior to its pub- lication. He examined— . “ 1. Twenty-seven cases of mild ‘ common cold.’ The symptoms were sore throat, malaise, muscular pains, headache, with more or less nasal discharge and sneezing. “ 2. Six of the above cases were persons connected with isolation hospitals, and have therefore been excluded from statistical consideration. “3. Of the remaining twenty-one cases, twenty had diphtheroid organisms in the throat or nose = 95 per cent., ten had the Micrococcus catarrhalis = 48 per cent. Other organisms were present in much the same proportion as in the recent observations of Lewis and Logan Turner on normal nasal cavities. “ 4. The diphtheroid organisms were isolated in six cases, and appeared to be identical with Cautley’s bacillus. * Published in British Medical Journal, May 5, 1905.
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