Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . SIS OF TYPHOID.(Griiber-Widal.) The blood of persons suffering from typhoid, when added toa broth culture of typhoid bacilli, arrests the characteristic move-ments of these germs and produces their agglutination and sedi-mentation. This phenomenon may be observed macroscopicallyin a suspension of bacteria in test tubes; or, microscopically, whenthe bacteria are mixed with the blood and mounted in a hangingdrop preparation. The test is generally positive in typhoidp
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . SIS OF TYPHOID.(Griiber-Widal.) The blood of persons suffering from typhoid, when added toa broth culture of typhoid bacilli, arrests the characteristic move-ments of these germs and produces their agglutination and sedi-mentation. This phenomenon may be observed macroscopicallyin a suspension of bacteria in test tubes; or, microscopically, whenthe bacteria are mixed with the blood and mounted in a hangingdrop preparation. The test is generally positive in typhoidpatients after the fifth day of the disease and several weeksthereafter. The blood (or serum from a blister) is obtained from theskin covering the ear lobe. After cleaning this part, the lobe ispricked with a sterile needle, and two drops of blood are placed Positiveafter fifth day. lit: PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE. on a glass slide, one near either end and allowed to dry in theair. The examination can then be undertaken any time there-after by diluting one drop of the hlood in ten or twenty partsof the typhoid 27.—Stages in Widal Reaction. (After Robin.) Conservatism versus nihilism, IV. MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. (Including Hydrotherapy, Electricity, Massage, Climato- therapy and Organotherapy.) No one method of treatment suits all cases. Some diseasessuhside spontaneously, if left alone; others go from had toworse if not treated promptly and energetically. Some affec-tions yield readily to biologic remedies, others to crude drugsor synthetic pharmaceutical preparations, and again othersrespond to change of climate, mode of living and eating, andto remedial measures other than pharmaceutical, such ashydrotherapy, massage, electricity and the like. ( )ur duty being to alleviate suffering, we owe it to our patientsto keep pace with the advances of the time and to employ everyuseful method of treatment regardless of its source or charac-ter. The period of
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