An introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy / by T. Henry Green.

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1884
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    Kocli* had already photographed similar bacilli at the time Eberth published. He found that they stained well with Bismarck brown, and had demonstrated their pre- sence in half the cases examined by him. W. Meyerf took for examination only recently-swollen patches and follicles. He failed to stain the bacilli, but found them in sixteen out of twenty cases. All the above observers made control observations on other cases, such as tubercular ulceration of the intes- tine ; but they never found the typhoid bacillus in dis- eases other than typhoid. They sometimes found cocci in the intestine and glands, but regarded them as secondary; but by others, as Letzerich;]: they have been considered as the organism of the disease. Maragliano§ examined blood from the finger aud spleen (during life) of fifteen typhoid patients. During the' height of the disease the former contained single and aggregated micro-organisms, almost all spherical, some mobile; in the latter, besides similar bodies, bacilli, like those of Klebs aud Eberth, occurred in small number. All disappeared in convalescence. Cultivation of blood from either finger or spleen yielded small rods like those found in fresh blood, and others much longer, like those described by Klebs. Brautlechty has often found a bacillus in epidemics in Brunswick, and has traced it to the drinking water; it forms spores when cultivated. Both bacilli and spores abound in the urine of typhoid patients. Sub- cutaneous injection of the cultivations in rabbits was fol- lowed by high fever, inflammation of Beyer's patches, swelHng of the mesenteric glands, and other signs of typhoid. The organism described by Brautlecht is not the same as that of Eberth and Koch, being smaller. * Mitth. a. d. k. Gosundlieitsamte, vol. i. 1881. i Unters. u. d. Bacilli d. Abdominaltyiihus, luaug. Diss Berlin 1881. ' t ylrch.f. Exp. Path., vol. ix. § Cbl.f. Med. U'iss., p. 725, 1882. II J'ircli. Arch., vol. Ixxxiv. p. 80.