The micro-organism of faulty rum / by V.H. Veley and Lilian J. Veley (née Gould).

  • Veley, V. H. (Victor Herbert)
Date:
1898
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Credit: The micro-organism of faulty rum / by V.H. Veley and Lilian J. Veley (née Gould). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from still in an infected works. Free from any trace of the organism. Sample XXI, 1897. Coloured, undiluted, certified as faulty. In this sample, which had been subjected to some process of fining, large colonies were found at the bottom only. The cocci were of enormous size, but dead, as was proved not only hy their abnormal appearance [PI. I. Fig. 1, c], but by failure to obtain growths from them when transferred to favourable media. It is clear from the following tabulation of the results that the micro-organism was present in the faulty, but absent from the sound samples, with the solitary exception of No. XII, in which the quantity present was not sufficient to cause cloudi- ness when examined by the broker’s test of dilution. No. of Sample. Year of Importation. Dilution. Condition. Micro- organism. I. 1887. Undiluted. Sound. Absent. II. 1891. 11 J! 11 III. X893. 11 11 11 IV. 1894. 11 11 11 V. 1897. 11 Faulty. Present. VI. 11 11 >1 11 VII. 11 11 >> 11 VIII. 11 11 1 * 11 IX. 11 Diluted. 11 11 X. 11 11 11 11 XI. 11 11 11 11 XII. 11 Undiluted. Sound. Trace present. XIII. 11 11 Faulty. Present. XIV. 1892. 11 11 XV. 1897. 11 11 Sound. Absent. XVI. 11 Faulty. Present. XVII. 11 11 11 11 XVIII. 11 Diluted. 11 11 XIX. 11 Undiluted. 11 11 XX. >) 11 Fresh from still. Absent. XXI. 11 11 Faulty. Present. These collected observations afford, to our minds, strong privicc facie evidence that there is a relation between the presence of the micro-organism and the ‘ faultiness. As the fact that the presence of the micro-organism always accom-
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