Researches on tuberculosis : the Weber-Parkes Prize essay.

  • Ransome, Arthur, 1834-1922.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Researches on tuberculosis : the Weber-Parkes Prize essay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    On the other hand, it must be pointed out that the ozone does not appear to have acted as a germicide ; and therefore, that its control over the disease cannot have been, in the main, due to its bactericidal action. It is very doubtful whether even ozone could succeed in reaching the microbe in the consolidated exudations of phthisis ; but it may well be that the gas may have a beneficial action upon the general health ; that it may improve the condition of both the white and red corpuscles of the blood ; and that it may enable the still healthy portions of the lungs to resist the noxious influences of the organism, and that it may thus ultimately cause the bacillus to die out of the parts already attacked.