Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac.

  • M'Cormac, Henry, 1800-1886.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Etiology of tubercle, with comments on Doctor Robert Kochs bacilli / by Henry Mac Cormac. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ulcer, with profuse purulent discharge, extending almost round the neck, I gave quinine and iron, with succulent nourishment, and, better still, made her ride all day long, and sleep quite as if in the open air. The ulcers healed perfectly, and there is not, I suppose, in all London, where she now resides, a more flourishing or vigorous woman. 1 could cite very many instances of the removal of scrofula in some of its evilest forms, by procedures in all respects similar. We have only become recently aware of the procedures of Doctors Dubove and Dujardin Beaumetz, which consist in feeding far- gone phthisical subjects with milk, eggs, raw meat reduced to an impalpable powder, and thrown into the stomach by means of the esophagean tube. It does not seem to induce vomiting. To one patient there was administered, with, it is said, striking bene- fit, 600 grammes crushed raw meat, twelve raw eggs, and some powdered lentils, to another, three litres new milk and twenty-one eggs, for sixteen days, daily. Baudelocque, Fourcault, Lombard, Pettenkofer, and others, have shown to demonstration that fouled air is productive of phthisis and scrofula, to which I have added, as I believe, the coping-stone, that phthisis is indeed owing to the respiration of fouled air, but air fouled by prior respiration. It is this protracted res- piration of air thus befouled, and not bacilli-laden dust, as Koch ingeniously imagines, that induces consump- tion in sailors who repose in hammocks slung within 18 inches of the ceiling in the swarming between decks of ship s of war, the frightful bunks of merchant ships, in