Treatment of bacterial diseases / [Sheridan Delépine].

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
Date:
[1891?]
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Credit: Treatment of bacterial diseases / [Sheridan Delépine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TREATMENT OF BACTERIAL DISEASES. Gentlemen,—The intense excitement and the unbounded hopes created by the announcement that a cure for con- sumption has at last been found have led me to lecture to-day on a subject which I generally relegate to the end of my course of pathology. For, after discussing the various phenomena which are brought about by disease, and attempting to connect these phenomena with their cause, apparent or real, it is natural to try to explain why these causes do nob always bring about the results which are observed only in a certain percentage of cases. Effects of individuality, age, sex, family, race, species.— It is a matter of common experience that in times of epi- demics persons equally exposed to infection are not all affected. The weak members of the community are gene- rally more readily affected than the strong ones, the starved than the well fed, the intemperate than the temperate, the- fearful than the fearless; but, apart from these often doubt- ful distinctions, some other influences must be at work in helping some to resist, for many a man or woman of weak constitution has been able to pass through plagues that had