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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... isms migrate into the organs from the intestine. If living bacteria are injected into the abdominal cavity or trachea of cadavers, they can very often be found in the organs after a time (C. B. Xxni, 418). After the autopsy the body is best burned. If this is not practicable, the body is wrapped in coverings wet with sublimate and buried at least 0.5 meter deep, and quicklime filled in about it. appendix V. Brief Guide to the Recognition of Bacteria. (Illustrated with an example.) The case is one of eczematous conjunctivitis in which a number of the bacteria occurring in diseased eyes are present. Purulent or serous material removed from the conjunctival sac or edge of the lid with a platinum loop is made use of. I. Microscopic Examination (Smear upon Slide or Cover-glass). (a) Stained with fuchsin, we see: 1. Cocci, especially diplococci in heaps, usually distinctly "biscuit-shaped," many times within cells (perhaps gonococci). 2. Cocci, single or united in irregular clusters (probably Micro, pyogenes). 3. Short chains, of two or three links, of lance-shaped cocci, some with capsules (probably Streptoc. lanceolat.). 4. Rods, larger or smaller, often very irregular in form, staining in segments, ends rounded or pointed, often of the size of cocci (true diphtheria, pseudodiphtheria, or xerosis bacillus). 5. Rods regular, rather thick, but small (perhaps coli group). 6. Rods, often in pairs, quite large, the ends not rounded (perhaps, although at the time without spores, a bacillus or Bacterium duplex). (b) Gram's stain: All the organisms in the preparation are stained except the biscuit-shaped cocci and the small, plump regular bacteria. The loss of color speaks in favor of the cocci being gonococci, and the rods Bact. coli. (c) Stain for...
