Report of the Medical Commission for the Investigation of Acute Respiratory Diseases of the Department of Health of the city of New York.

  • Medical Commission for the Investigation of Acute Respiratory Diseases.
Date:
[1905?]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Commission for the Investigation of Acute Respiratory Diseases of the Department of Health of the city of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE I {Continued). No. of Organism. III. IV. V. VIII. Source. Cultiire from con- solidated lung, lobar pneu- monia. Meninges, cerebro- spinal menin- gitis. Date. 11/6 Pleiira, lobar pneu- monia. Lung, lobar pneu- monia. 11/8 ii/iS 12/5 Morphology. Lanceolate diplococci, no chains. Gram positive. Lanceolate diplococci, no chains. Gram positive. Lanceolate diplococci, few short chains. Gram positive. Lanceolate and round cocci in pairs.' Gram' positive. Capsules. Blood-agar; positive (ordinary stains). Blood-agar; positive (ordinary stains). Inulin- Serum Water. 24 hrs., clot. Positive; serum (Hiss). 48 hrs. clot. 48 hrs., clot. 48 hrs. clot. Pathogenicity. 4 c.c. 24-hr. bouillon cultun subcutaneously kills rabbit wt. 708 grams, in 5 days Extensive sero-fibrinous sub, cutaneous exudate; broncho pneumonia; spleen large an( soft. Cultures from hear positive. 2 c.c 24-hr. bouilloi culture kills mouse intra peritoneally in 12 hrs. 2 c.c. 24-hr. bouillon cultur intravenously kills rabbit ■wt. 374 grams, in 12 hrs Spleen small and hard. Afte passage through 13 rabbits o.ooi c.c. 24-hr. bouillo: culture kills rabbit, \\A,. 195 grams, in 36 hrs.; produce usually extensive fibrinou exudate in subcutaneous tis sues with hard friabl spleen, also fibrino-purulen peritonitis, septicemia wit subserous haemorrhages; one infarction of spleen. 2 c.c. 24-hr. bouillon cultm subcutaneously, in rabbit,w 1300 grams, negative. 2 c.i 24-hr. bouillon culture ii traperitoneally, in rabbit,w 1320 grams, negative. Deat in 35 da3^s, no local lesioni cultures negative. 0.2 c.c. 24-hr. bouillon cu ture subcutaneously kil rabbit, wX. 1000 grams, i 12 hrs. Extensive sero-sai guino-fibrinous exudate \ subcutaneous tissues; sma soft spleen. Cultures an cover-slips from heart, su cutaneous tissues, and pei toneum positive. 0.5 c.c. 24-hr. bouillon cultu kills second rabbit, wt. 15: grams, subcutaneously, 20 hrs. Slight subcutaneoi oedema, small soft splee: cultures from subcutaneoi tissues, heart, and perit neum positive.