On artificial disinfection as a means of preventing the spread of infectious diseases / by J.H. Timins.

Date:
1878
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Credit: On artificial disinfection as a means of preventing the spread of infectious diseases / by J.H. Timins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    o-ranules fonned from cell protoplasm in the manner we have described. The specimens illustrating pyasmia especially, showed micrococci both in free masses and within cells of the kidney, almost identical with those shown in our pre- parations. In the discussion of the questions referi-ed to, it was assumed tliat the so- called micrococci were specific independent organisms from without the body, and the chief interest turned on such questions as how fhey managed to enter imderneath the dressing or into the body, wlietiier they could exi.st in the body, or what specific influence, if any, they might have there. All reasoning therefore might, however, seem superfluous if it could be shown tliat, instead of being specific independent organisms from without, the so-called micrococci were merely minute atoms of the protoplasm of the cells within the body, formed as wo have described, and that according as they were the result of a physiological or a pathological process, so would their effect be when introduced into the system. In more specific terms we might consider that the particles resulting from the disintegration of the protoplasm of fat-cells would be harmless, while those resulting from the protoplasm of cells in glanders, where we have also observed this process, would be most malignant in their effect when introduced into the system; and the same might be said of those particles so clearly shown within and outside the cells in pyajmia. London: Printed by William Clowbs & Sovs, Stamford Street and Charing Cross.
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