The bacteriological diagnosis of certain infectious diseases in connexion with public health work / by Sheridan Delépine.
- Auguste Sheridan Delépine
- Date:
- [1898]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The bacteriological diagnosis of certain infectious diseases in connexion with public health work / by Sheridan Delépine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![this will be regarded as a proof that the ported admits o doubt. Applications for pipettes must be .^>to the irut°0pressor Office The pipettes must afterwards be forwarded a^ect io . d Delaine at Owens College. The diagnosis again can only be obtained St by the medical attendant of the bacteriological^d agnos s If the medical attendant will telephone to Public Healtn urn. from the nearest police-station a request for %pip^te this will be at once sent by messengerto hie> residence, or to^the ^dress ot t ^ patient, as the medical attendant may desire. If he is prePa£ . to take a specimen for diagnosis the messenger will ™ait torecem^ Dinette from him charged with the matter to be ™™?f'™wf. cXey t forthwith to the laboratory The diagnosisnjaUb>JP££* the medical attendant only on the following day. ^f however, that the pipette reach the laboratory^by 1 p.m. on anyone™ the days Monday to Friday and on Saturday by 10 a.m., otherwise the diagnosis will be delayed by one day. No diagnosis will be given 0IThenedxpyense of the bacteriolog.cal examination will be'W^by the Corporation, and it is hoped that full;advantage mil be fcaken o the opportunities thus afforded at the earhest possible period of the Astoe bacteriological diagnosis is more difficult during the first week of the disease, a slcond tube should be sent after the first week if, a negative result has been obtained within the first seven days after the b6«eVLTmSl men may f^^^^S^SS^ with the procedure which they will require to adopt a copy of Professor Delepine's instructions for taking material is enclosed. James Niven, Medical Officer of Health. [Enclosure.] Directions for Taking a Sample of Blood for Purposes of Sero-diagnosis. 1 The skin of the back of the index or middle finger is first washed with soap and water and then with alcohol when possible.7 2 Meanwhile the finger can be prepared by causing congestion in one of the usual ways—e g., by tying a piece of tape, nob too tightly, round the root of that finger. . „. 3 Whilst the finger is being cleaned the case containing the pipette is opened by lifting one of the plaster lids and the pipette is removed. About -K of an inch of the sealed point is broken off with a pair ot forceps or otherwise. The point is sterilised by passing it two or three times through the blue flame of a spirit lamp, or for a few seconds jmsC above an ordinary gas, candle, or match flame. (A deposit of soot on the glass Bhould be avoided.) _ , ... 4 The patient should be made to flex the finger as much as possible. The tightened congested skin, just above the root of the nail, should now be sharply pricked with the mounted sterilised needle, which is i In the first 500 cases, in order to obtain sampleE suitable for lengthy experiments, I asked that the skin Bhould be thoroughly sterilised. This is not necessary in ordinary routine work. For the same reasons the form of pipette used has now been simplified; it consists simply of a narrow tube drawn to a point at each end, the ends being sealed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21454176_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
