On bacillary consumption : its nature and treatment in the true first stage / by Horace Dobell.

  • Horace Dobell
Date:
1889
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Credit: On bacillary consumption : its nature and treatment in the true first stage / by Horace Dobell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PACE associated intercepting contrivances—Cutaneous Portal, Alimentary Portal, Respiratory Portal, Genital Portal— Tuberculisation due to other Irritants than Bacilli, illustrated by Grit-Phthisis, etc 17—32 CHAPTER III. The importance of not confining our views of Tuberculosis to Pulmonary Consumption — Opinions of Hughes Bennett, Jonathan Hutchinson, E. Sjmes Thompson, and the Author on the Digestive Organs—Diseases of the bones and joints, illustrative of Bacillary Tuberculosis— Domiciliation, localisation, and dissemination of Bacilli —Nocard's experiments with the muscles and glands of tuberculous animals—Organismal potency and impo- tency ; excretion of Bacilli ; destruction of Bacilli— Power of Bacilli and their spores to defy all known means of limitation and extermination—Causes of variation in different cases of Bacillary Tuberculosis— Complications due to effects of other Irritants—Enume- ration of irritants and morbid states associated with the phenomena of Tuberculisation and Phthisis—Initial Loss of Weight and constitutional decline discussed— Pre-tuberculous and Pre-bacillary stages—The laws which dominate habitat—The special food and temperature which determine the habitat of Tubercle Bacilli—Disin- tegration of proteids by oxygen and by Bacilli—The localities of special incidence—The order of events in Tuberculosis depends upon the portal by which the Ii-ritant enters—General tuberculisation from entry of Bacilli into the vascular system .... 33—52 CHAPTER IV. Bacillary Tuberculosis considered as—1. A Primary Blood Disease. 2. A Primary Local Disease. 3. A Secondary Blood Disease. 4. A Secondary Local Disease. 5. A Com- bination of the above with Suppurative and Septic Pro- cesses—Effects of Vitalised and Non-vitalised Irritants compared—Special virulence of Bacilli due to locomotion, multiplication, and demand for sustenance—Difficulty
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