Abstract of a paper 'A resume of the subject of actinomycosis, with report of a case of actinomycosis abdominalis' / by A. Vanderveer and Arthur W. Elting.

  • Vander Veer, A. (Albert), 1841-1929.
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1901
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Credit: Abstract of a paper 'A resume of the subject of actinomycosis, with report of a case of actinomycosis abdominalis' / by A. Vanderveer and Arthur W. Elting. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Zip' (Reprinted from Tiie Philadelphia Mkdical Journal, Dec. 28, 1901.) t k cr-! |«cr • j r— > ABSTRACT OP A PAPER “A RESUME OF THE SUBJECT OF AG3^NGMY]DdSlS—WITH REPORT OF A CASE OF ACTINOMYCOSIS ABDOMINALIS.”* By A.VANDERVEER.M.D., and ARTHUR W.ELTING, M.D., of Albany, New York. Mr. President:—I desire to express my apprecia- tion of Dr. Elting’s contribution in the careful study of this subject, and in the reference he has made to various authors, French and German in especial. The polymorphous fungus belonging to the genus of oospores was first recognized by von Langen- beck in 1845. In 1857 Lebert described a case of thoracic actinomycosis, observed by Louis in 1848, and published cuts of the actinomyces in his atlas, believing, however, that these fungi were the debris of cysticerci. From 1868 to 1875 Rivolti and Perroncito de- monstrated the so-called sarcomata of the jaws of cattle to be due to actinomyces, Bollinger, at the same time, recognizing the characteristic fungus in “Lump Jaw” in cattle, and referred it to the botanist Harz, who classified and gave to it the name of actinomycosis. Actinomycosis in human pathology dates from the works of Israel in 1878, this author and Ponfick recognizing the identity of bovine and human actinomyces, even before the transmissi- bility of the disease had been proven by inoculation experiments, the latter, however, not being success- ful until 1880, when Johne produced the disease in a cow inoculated with some of the actinomycotic granules obtained from an animal of the same species. In 1883 Israel successfully inoculated the human actinomyces into a rabbit. * Read at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of the State of New York. New York City, October 16th, 1901.