NORTH CAROLINA

MEDICAL JOURNAL.

A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND

SURGERY.

EDITED BY

ROBERT D. JEWETT, M. D.

VOLUME XL.

JULY TO DECEMBER 1897.

WILMINGTON. N. C.,

CAROLINA PUBLISHING COMPANY,

1897.

MEDICAL JOURNAL.

A SEMI-MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND

BY J. W. WHITE, M.D., Chairman, Wilkesboro, N. C.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Society:

IN

"N the preparation of this report on the Section "Pathology and Microscopy," I have endeavored to collect and compile from the writings of leading authorities on this subject, such reports as will be of greatest interest to us as physicians.

The laborers in this field of our work have been dilligent in their search, and the new lights turned on in the past twelve months have disentangled many perplexing difficulties. The detection and positive identification of the specific pathogenic micro-organisms which are responsible for the many contagious and infectious diseases, have engaged the attention of pathogenists and bacteriologists in all parts of the world. We rejoice to say that in many cases their efforts have met with success far beyond our most sanguine expectations.

With the aid of the microscope and various staining processes many of the organisms may be detected and accurately described. In the last few years the efforts to isolate the cholera vibrion, the bacillus of the bubonic plague and that of yellow fever, have attracted widespread interest, and it is now claimed that the etiological factors in all these diseases have been discovered and fully described. It seems not to be disputed that Dr. Ginsoppe Sanarelii, a native of Arazzo, Italy, has discovered the microbe of yellow fever. Sanarelii himself says that "the

*Read before the North Carolina Medical Society June 8, 1897.