Diphtheria and its associates / by Lennox Browne ; illustrated by the author.

  • Browne, Lennox, 1841-1902.
Date:
1895
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    CONTENTS. PAGE DEFINITION AND SYNOPSIS 1 CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF DIPHTHERIA, 3 CHAPTER 11. ETIOLOGY, 11 Predisposing causes, 12 ; Geographical, 12; Causes of origin in sparse districts, 14 ; Of dissemination, 17 ; Geology, 18 ; Rainfall, 19; Season, 21 ; Domestic surroundings, 22 ; Insanitation and polluted water, 23 ; Infected milk supply, 24 ; Accumulations of organic and other refuse, 26; Tabular abstract of outbreaks, 28; Preceding or concurrent epidemics, 30 ; Scarlet fever, 30 ; Measles, 30 ; Smallpox, 31 ; Typhoid fever, 32 ; Ghickenpox, 33 ; Endemic sore throat, 33 ; Constitutional predisposition, 33; Mouth-breathing, 33; Enlarged tonsils and adenoid vegetations, 34; Decayed and badly kept teeth, 36 ; Tuberculous glands, 36 ; Age, 37 ; Inoculability, 37 ; Contagion and dissemination, 38 ; In hospitals, 38 ; By school influence, 39. CHAPTER III. ETIOLOGY — Continued. The Bacteriology of Diphtheria and its Associates, . . . . . . . .41 Discovery of Bacillus by Klebs and Loeffler, 41 ; Subdivisions of Diphtheria, 44 ; The Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, 46 ; Diplococcus, 48 ; Brisou coccus, 49 ; Staphylococcus, 50 ; Streptococcus, 50 ; Other coocal organisms, 51 ; Pseudo-diphtheria bacillus, otherwise the attenuated or non-virulent, 52. CHAPTER IV. ETIOLOGY — Coniniwcrf. The toxic products of the Diphtheria BACILLUS AND IT.S ASSOCIATES, .... 58 Author's view, 58 ; Method of obtaining, 59 ; Nature of, 61 ; Action of, 64 ; The albumoses, 64 ; The organic acid, 66 ; Influence of associ- ated cocci, 66.