Dr. J. Burdon Sanderson's reports of an experimental study of infective inflammations.

  • Burdon-Sanderson, John Scott, 1828-1905.
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[1875]
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Credit: Dr. J. Burdon Sanderson's reports of an experimental study of infective inflammations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    App. No. 2, On Infective Inflammations, by Dr. Eurdon Sanderson. Division of the experiments into two series. Series I.—Ex- periments in which the exuda- tion-liquids used were derived from infective inflammation of rapid progress. ammonia and concentrated solution of iodine in hydriodic acid. As regards the ammonia, precautions were taken to guard against contami- nation by boiling and cooling the liquids as well as the implements to be used immediately before injection. In the case of the iodine solution this was, of course, unnecessary. In every instance it was found that the exudation liquids, collected from 24 to 48 hours after injection, were charged with bacteria; whence it appeared probable that the existence of these organisms was dependent, not on the nature of the exciting liquid by which the inflammation was induced, but on the intensity of the inflammation itself. After an interval of several months, occupied in other investigations, the inquiry was resumed. The experiments made may be divided into two series; in one those are comprised in which the liquids of acute infective inflammations were used, and consequently the results exhi- bited those characters of intensity and virulence which are expressed by the term septicaemia; in the others the results resembled those which have been already referred to in the preceding section, both as regards the methods and the phenomena induced. The important conclusions to which they have led will be stated after the facts themselves have been discussed. The following is a tabular summary of the experimental results of the first series :— :