The incidence and bacteriological characteristics of tuberculous infection in children / by Arthur Eastwood, M.D., and Fred Griffith, M.B. An enquiry, based on a series of autopsies, into the occurrence and distribution of turberculous infection in children, and its relation to the bovine and the human types of tubercle bacilli respectively / by A. Stanley Griffith, M.D.
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- 1914
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Credit: The incidence and bacteriological characteristics of tuberculous infection in children / by Arthur Eastwood, M.D., and Fred Griffith, M.B. An enquiry, based on a series of autopsies, into the occurrence and distribution of turberculous infection in children, and its relation to the bovine and the human types of tubercle bacilli respectively / by A. Stanley Griffith, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![4] Kidneys.—An occasional minute grey focus in the cortices. Intestines.—In the small intestine, about three feet from the ileo-caecal valve, was one greyish yellow nodule in a Peyer’s patch, a little larger than a millet seed. Summary. Direct cultures from the bronchial and mesenteric glands were eugonic and of low virulence for rabbits. Origin of infection probably respiratory. H 116. F. EK. H., 6 years; female. Middle ear disease; meningitis. Bronchial Glands —In one were found two yellow, calcareous miliary nodules. General tuberculosis was produced in three guinea-pigs. Lungs.—No visible tuberculosis. Other Organs.—No visible tuberculosis. An emulsion of the mesenteric glands failed to produce tuberculosis in three guinea- pigs. The brain was reported to be in a condition of acute puru- lent meningitis. Summary. A culture from the bronchial glands, through a guinea-pig, was eugonic and of low virulence for rabbits. Origin of infection probably respiratory. EP EET, A. H., 3 years; male. Caries of spine; pleurisy; peritonitis. Bronchial Glands.—No visible tuberculosis. Two guinea-pigs were found free from disease when killed six weeks after inoculation. Lungs.—No visible tuberculosis. Mesenteric Glands.—There were three masses of enlarged olands, the largest single gland being about the size of a sparrow’s egg; the capsules were thickened and fibrous and contained softening caseous substance. A few slightly enlarged glands contained single tubercles. Tubercle bacilli were fairly numerous, short, and some broken up. ‘Two guinea-pigs and a rabbit were inoculated: the guinea-pigs were found free from disease when killed six weeks aferwards; the rabbit showed a local lesion only when killed after 105 days. Spleen.—No visible tuberculosis. Intestines.—No visible tuberculosis. Other Organs.—Reported free from visible tuberculosis. Summary. No tubercle bacilli obtainable. Direct cultures from the mesenteric glands remained sterile. Origin of infection probably alimentary. ; H 118. W. P., 6 years; male. Tuberculous meningitis; general tuber- culosis. Bronchial Glands.—On the right side they were enlarged and fibro-caseous throughout; on the left side they contained didesio tubercles. Tubercle bacilli were scanty, of moderate length and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29012971_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
