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Investigations Into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases, Tr. by W.w. Cheyne
Investigations Into the Etiology of Traumatic Infective Diseases Tr by Ww Cheyne Author:Robert Koch General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: number and distribution, be such as to afford a complete explanation of the symptoms. For, if in some cases of a certain form of infective disease bacteria be found, while in others of like nature they are absent, and if further the bacteria present be so few in number that it is impossible that a severe disease or a fatal termination could thereby be produced, then of course nothing remains but to regard the irregular appearance of the bacteria as depending on chance, and their small number as insufficient as an only cause of the disease in question; in other words it is necessary to assume the presence of some other agency. The observations hitherto made with regard to the occurrence of bacteria in traumatic infective diseases do not, however, in reality fulfil the necessary conditions. On account of the difficulties, before alluded to, attending the demonstration of bacteria in the blood, and more especially in the tissues, many of the above-mentioned statements have been received with considerable suspicion, -- whether always with justice must remain uncertain, -- for the earlier method of investigation is in most cases a groping in the dark, and its results cannot be otherwise than very doubtful. But, apart from the uncertain results of much laborious work on the bacteria of traumatic infective diseases, the literature of the subject contains a number of statements as to complete absence of bacteria in undoubted instances of these affections. It would serve no good purpose to enumerate here all these negative statements, as their value is even less than that of the positive. One or two may, howe...« less