The Sanitary Inspector, Volume 3

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Maine State Board of Health, 1890
 

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Page 129 - ... coincide with the appearances in the mucous membrane of the human fauces, pharynx, or larynx in diphtheria. But the correctness of the above supposition, that diphtheria has its seat in the lung of the cat naturally diseased, was proved by direct' experiment. Broth culture of the bacillus diphtheriae was introduced into the cavity of the normal trachea without injuring the mucous membrane. The animals became ill with acute pneumonia, and on post-mortem, two to seven days after, there was found...
Page 89 - The record of the great saving of human life and health in Michigan in recent years is one to which, it seems to me, the State and local Boards of Health in Michigan can justly
Page 2 - That it is acquired by the direct transmission of the tubercle bacillus from the sick to the healthy, usually by means of the dried and pulverized sputum floating as dust in the air.
Page 131 - J — f of an inch in diameter; they had alia rounded outline, some showed a dark centre. From one of the above cows on the fifth day milk was received from a healthy teat, having previously thoroughly disinfected the outside of the teat and the milker's hand ; from this milk cultivations were made, and it was found that thirty-two colonies of the diphtheria bacillus without any contamination were obtained from one cubic centimetre of the milk.
Page 36 - ... that the virus is present, whether there is disease of the udder or not ; 3, that there is no ground for the assertion that there must be a lesion of the udder before the milk can contain the infection of tuberculosis...
Page 98 - The duster, and especially that potent distributor of germs, the feather duster, should never be used in the room habitually occupied by a consumptive. The floor, woodwork, and furniture should be wiped with a damp cloth. The patient's clothing should be kept by itself, and thoroughly boiled when washed. It need hardly be said that the room should be ventilated as thoroughly as is consistent with the maintenance of a proper temperature.
Page 18 - Had better be filtered and boiled ere you drink it, Unless you know surely that nothing unsound Can have got to it over or under the ground. But of all things the most I would have you beware Of breathing the poison of once-breathed air; When in bed, whether out or at home you may be, Always open the windows and let it go free.
Page 131 - Unlike in the human, in the guinea-pig and in the cat the diphtheria bacillus passed from the seat of inoculation into the system of the cow ; this was proved by the demonstration of the diphtheria bacillus in the milk. But also in the eruption on the udder, the presence of the diphtheria bacillus was demonstrated by microscopic specimens and particularly by experiment. With matter taken from the eruption — vesicles and pustules — of the udder, two calves were inoculated into the skin of the...

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