. Microbes, ferments and moulds . Bacteria; Fungi; Fermentation. 234 MICEOBES, FEEMENTS, AND MOULDS. XV. Microbes of Pus; Pyemia and Septicemia. Sores and surgical operations are often followed by a general poisoning of tte blood and of the whole system—a severe affection which is rapidly fatal, and characterized by the presence of pus-corpuscles in con- siderable numbers in the blood and in the principal organs. Together with these pus-corpuscles there is always a special microbe, termed Micrococcus septicus, which, like that of diphtheria, may either appear free or in the form of chaplets (v
. Microbes, ferments and moulds . Bacteria; Fungi; Fermentation. 234 MICEOBES, FEEMENTS, AND MOULDS. XV. Microbes of Pus; Pyemia and Septicemia. Sores and surgical operations are often followed by a general poisoning of tte blood and of the whole system—a severe affection which is rapidly fatal, and characterized by the presence of pus-corpuscles in con- siderable numbers in the blood and in the principal organs. Together with these pus-corpuscles there is always a special microbe, termed Micrococcus septicus, which, like that of diphtheria, may either appear free or in the form of chaplets (vibrio), or in the interior of the colourless corpuscles of pus, or embryonic cells, of which it effects the rupture in the form of zoogloea. This microbe, or others of allied species, are the im- mediate cause of that poison- ing of the blood which is termed pyaemia, septicaemia, traumatic fever, puerperal fever, post-mortem wounds, ^. „ , , , etc. The germs of Micro- Flg. 98.—Pu8-corpuBcle8 of puerperal 6 ^ chairfxaoS^lmo.™"""'"'' ^ <'occus scpUciLS are intro- duced into the blood, and multiply there, through the exposed surface of a wound, or sometimes by means of the instrument which caused it (Fig. 98). When the instrument causing the wound is charged with microbes, it is not necessary that the wound. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Trouessart, E. -L. (Edouard-Louis), 1842-1927. New York : Appleton
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