A Study of the Bacteriology and Pathology of Two Hundred and Twenty Fatal Cases of Diphtheria (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Councilman, William Thomas

 
9781334046865: A Study of the Bacteriology and Pathology of Two Hundred and Twenty Fatal Cases of Diphtheria (Classic Reprint)

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AS a rule the autopsies in our cases were made a short while after death and the tissues were in a good state of preservation. All tissues were rejected for histological ex amination in which there-appeared to be any post mortem change. At the autopsy, routine bacteriological examina tions were made from the throat, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and lymph nodes, though this was modified in certain cases. While, in the main, the results Obtained from these routine examinations can be regarded as correct, there is no doubt that certain organisms Often were overlooked. But the results certainly are correct as regards the presence of diphtheria bacilli and the common pyogenic organisms.

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