The principles and practice of modern surgeryPark, Roswell
Science
The principles and practice of modern surgery
Park, Roswell
Surgery
F. =Bacillus Tuberculosis.=--This organism likewise will receive fuller
description in an ensuing chapter. (See Tuberculosis.) The pus of old
cold abscesses in which the more obligate pyogenic organisms have long
since died usually contains this organism in mildly virulent form.
On the other hand, fresh suppurations occurring in connection with
tuberculous disease are mixed infections. There is reason to believe,
however, that this organism is capable of producing pus even when
none of these are present; for example, in that form of acute miliary
tuberculosis which is occasionally met with as bone abscess it may be
found.
G. =Bacillus Anthracis.=--This is one of the most malignant and
resistant organisms known, being in the highest degree poisonous
for the smaller animals, man being less susceptible. One of its
characteristic lesions in the human body is a form of pustule commonly
known as _malignant pustule_, the pus in which is usually a pure
culture of this organism. (See Anthrax.)
H. =Bacillus Mallei.=--This is the organism which produces glanders in
the lower animals and in man. That form of the disease known as farcy,
in which the infected nodules rapidly break down, is likely to contain
pus which will be more or less a pure culture of this organism.
I. =Bacillus Lepræ.=--This is the microörganism which produces
leprosy, closely resembling the tubercle bacillus. It is constantly
and exclusively present in the lesions of leprosy, which are often of
the suppurative type, the bacilli being enclosed within pus cells; it
is also found in the fluid surrounding them. Although suppuration in
these cases may be in a large measure due to secondary infection, it is
positive that the leprous bacilli deserve to be grouped in this place.
J. =The Bacillus Pneumoniæ of Friedlander.=--The bacillus pneumoniæ
of Friedländer was at one time regarded as the cause of croupous
pneumonia, which is now known to be due to the micrococcus lanceolatus.
The Friedländer bacillus, however, is capable of producing
bronchopneumonia, and is occasionally met with in empyema, suppurative
meningitis, and inflammations about the nasopharyngeal cavity, of which
it is known to be an occasional inhabitant.
K. =The Bacillus of Rhinoscleroma.=--A distinctive organism has been
described for this disease and given this name. It has such wide
morphological differences, however, that it is possible that it is only
the bacillus of Friedländer above mentioned. At all events, an organism
of this general character is constantly found in this disease in the
thickened tissues from the nose (Fig. 8).
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