A report of microscopical and physiological researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing cholera : second series / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A report of microscopical and physiological researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing cholera : second series / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4>3 ] — The Choleraic material introduced being Fresh but subjec to Heat.—(continued). Vein sklkctbd. Tempehatube. 00 , RT3 RliMAHKS. Experiment No. femoral I Saphena. Degree. Minute's duration. ll SS-S p.a Affected. XLV 1 212c Three Eight 1 post-mortem examination, • except that the last two feet of the small intestine had evidently been ma- terially affected. Died within 5 hours after having passed copious fluid stools and manifest- ed symptoms of consider- able pain. The material used was the same that was employed in the last experiment as also in Exp. XXXIII. Table IV, but in the latter case un- boiled and with a nega- tive result. A post-mor- tem examination was made [immediately after death : the intestines were full of watery and slimy fluid. The venous blood was very dark : no bac- teria could be detected in it. Died within 12 hours. No very marked post-mortem lesion, the principal being peritonitis. Died within 15 hours. Unaffected. Not much affected. The fluid injected in the last four experiments was derived from the same patient, a well-marked case of cholera; and coun- ter-experiments were made with it, without boiling, in Atnov nncrci Twn nf ulilCC UlUol UU^O) llYU KJL which yielded no results. (Vide Exp. XXXIV— XXXVI, Table XV.) XLVI XLYII XLVI1I XLIX ... 1 1 1 1 212° 212° 212° 212° Three Three Three Three Four Four Four Four 1 1 1