On the value of the different bacteriological methods of diagnosis of typhoid fever / by Sheridan Delépine.

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
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[1897]
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    [Reprinted from the Medical Chronicle, March, 1897.] ON THE VALUE OF THE DIFFERENT BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS OF TYPHOID FEVER.* By SHERIDAN DELEP1NE, M.B., B.Sc., Procter Professor of Pathology, Owens College, Victoria University. It is generally acknowledged that in a large number of cases which may on good grounds, be suspected to be cases of typhoid fever, it is bv no means easy to establish, by ordinary clinical methods, a positive or a negative diagnosis leaving no room for doubt For several years I have paid much attention to the methods which bacteriology has placed at our disposal, aud which are capable of bein- advantageous y used for the diagnosis of infectious disease, On accuracy of the diagnosis of such diseases depends entirely the value of our statistics and of the methods we use in the treatment and prevent on o isease. I have done this not only with the object of satisfyhig e that these methods were useful, but more especially with the view of d covermg how far they were capable of giving more reliable re uhs u ther methods within a space of time and under conditions which render their apphcation advantageous. It was also in every case necessTrv ! -over the technique which reduced to a minimum S sZTZo t necessarily connected with biological investigations. I have on rev occasions, had opportunities to give an account of work rf this'CZ connection with tuberculosis, Asiatic cholera, and diphtheihth I will refer more specially to the diagnosis of enteric W ' previous to Eberth (1880-83) and GafFky (1884) seveml «h had described micro-organisms in connectionwiteZvio iTT Recklinghausen, Klein, Klebs, among others). feV61' (v°U * Delivered before the Pathoiogical Society of Manchester, February, 189r.