The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . llKj. -Iart of miliary tubercle from a case of basilar menin-gitis (Till/diameters). (Koch.) ETIOLOGY OF TUBEECULOSIS. 2f;5. Fig. 194.—Giant cell containing bacilli taken frommiliary tubercle (700 diameters). (Koch.) There is no organ of the human body that is exempt from the possibilityof tuberculosis. The predisposition to infection by the ubiquitous spores of the bacillusof tuberculosis is manifestly increased by any kind of deterioration of localor general bodily v
The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . llKj. -Iart of miliary tubercle from a case of basilar menin-gitis (Till/diameters). (Koch.) ETIOLOGY OF TUBEECULOSIS. 2f;5. Fig. 194.—Giant cell containing bacilli taken frommiliary tubercle (700 diameters). (Koch.) There is no organ of the human body that is exempt from the possibilityof tuberculosis. The predisposition to infection by the ubiquitous spores of the bacillusof tuberculosis is manifestly increased by any kind of deterioration of localor general bodily vigor. Mal-nutrition, whether due to an at-tack of measles or the whooping-cough, or to a chronic catarrhof the infantile gut caused b}improper nursing, or to long-continued suj^puration from anosteom3^elitic sequestrum, is, asa matter of actual observation,very often followed by local andgeneral tuberculosis. The most common way of m-fection is undoubtedly that bythe lungs. Catarrhal affectionsof the bronchial mucous mem-brane, regularly accompanied by superficial denudations of the epithelium,serve as portals for the entrance and implantation of the spores of the bacil-lus. And, as the deterioration of the general state of health after meas
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