The Practitioner, Volume 14John Brigg, 1875 - Family medicine |
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Page 85 - morning, the amount was nearly trebled, as. will be seen by the accompanying table:— May 17 . May 18 . May 19 . May 20 . May 21 . May 22 . May 23 . May 24 . May 25 . May 26 . , May 27 . May 28
Page 66 - It is to cleanliness, ventilation, and drainage, and the use of perfectly pure drinking water, that populations ought mainly to look for safety against nuisance and infection. Artificial disinfectants cannot properly supply the place of those essentials; for, except in a small and peculiar class of cases, they are of temporary or imperfect usefulness.
Page 470 - to have their essence, or an inseparable part of it, in certain solid elements which the microscope discovers in them : in living organisms, namely, which in their largest sizes are but very minute microscopical objects and at their least sizes are probably unseen even with the microscope ; organisms which, in virtue of their vitality,
Page 387 - Statement.—In addition to these documents, there must now be forwarded to the Office of the Commissioners a statement of the condition of the patient, signed by his medical attendant, after two clear days and before the expiration of seven clear days from the day of reception, according to the form in Schedule F to chapter 100. (25
Page 472 - namely, of microscopical forms, apparently of the lowest vegetable life, multiplying to innumerable swarms in the intestinal tissues of the sick, penetrating on the one hand from the mucous surface into the general system of the patient, and contributory on the other hand, with whatever infective power they represent, to the bowel-contents which
Page 474 - overpowering of the limited normal resistance to the septic ferment; or seeing—and particularly where some exceptional bodily state (wounded or puerperal) gives opportunity, the sudden invasion of erysipelas or other septic infection, not in discoverable dependence on any human infectant, but conceivably a filth-inoculation from the air. The line of reflection thus suggested is one which
Page 471 - by these various agencies (essential and incidental) that Filth produces 'zymotic' disease, it is important not to confound them with the foetid gases of organic decomposition ; and the question, what infecting powers are prevalent in given atmospheres, should never be regarded as
Page 471 - ferment 1 —seems always to be present where putrefactive changes are in progress", as of course in all decaying animal refuse ; while others, though certainly not essential to all such putridity, are in different degrees apt, and some of them little
Page 473 - kind, assuredly that intermediary influence is but part, and it may be but a very subordinate part, of the faculty by which Filth produces disease. While it is indeed true as regards some contagia that at present we know them only as incidents of the human body, wherein we see them in case after
Page 457 - this oblique position, thus keeping the fissure permanently open. The part was then dressed with a solution of nitrate of lead in glycerine, ten grains to the ounce, and instructions were given to remove the plaster when the babe was to be nursed, but to apply another in the same way immediately afterwards.