The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . coccus by reflected 3.—Chain-coccus of pyaemia by reflected light. (Prom Rosenbach.) NATURAL HISTORY OF IDIOPATHIC SUPPURATION. 171 Xone of the pus-geneniting cocci cause what is commonly called putres-cence. Decomposition of tissties, accompanied by the production of foulodors, is always due to thefermentative action of di-verse forms of elongated bod-ies, called bacilli or III, Fig. 8, shows apure culture of the ^^ Bacil-lus saprogenes, or bacteri


The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery; a practical treatise for the use of students and the general practitioner . coccus by reflected 3.—Chain-coccus of pyaemia by reflected light. (Prom Rosenbach.) NATURAL HISTORY OF IDIOPATHIC SUPPURATION. 171 Xone of the pus-geneniting cocci cause what is commonly called putres-cence. Decomposition of tissties, accompanied by the production of foulodors, is always due to thefermentative action of di-verse forms of elongated bod-ies, called bacilli or III, Fig. 8, shows apure culture of the ^^ Bacil-lus saprogenes, or bacteriumof putrescence. Fig. 9 is apure culture gained from anosteal focus in putrid com-pound fracture with fatalsepticaemia. (Figs. 132 and133.) The accompanying chro-molithographs were careful-ly copied from Eosenbachsmonograph, and give a verylife-like image of the severalmolds or cultures. On account of their ex- Fiq, ise.—Bacteria of blue pus (TOO diameters). (Koch.) cellence and truthfulness, a number of Kochs renowned microphotographs, illustrating various forms of microbial growth, have been here n. PORTALS OF INFECTION. It is safe to assume that, without exception, all forms of suppurationowe their origin to infection from without. The portals through which the pyogenic organismsP5^^. :? -? ^-:?-:^: ^..-n^T^-^Li- ..l-V\.>»^.| known as cocci and bac-teria enter the systemare, on one side, the le-sions of the outer integu-ment ; on the other, le-sions of the mucous lin-ing of the digestory, re-spiratory, and urogenitalapparatus. The infectionof larger accidental orsurgical wounds has beentreated of in the preceding chapters. Infection through minimal lesions ofthe skin or mucous membranes and its sequels will now receive attention. 1. Infection through Lesions of the Skin.—The popular tenet that awound that bleeds well heals well, is based on correct observation. Sharp


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