The Hygiene of transmissible diseases ; their causation, modes of dissemination, and methods of preventionW.B. Saunders, 1901 - 350 pages |
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Page 62
... possible only in a limited number of cases . Some of the most important diseases that are known clin- ically to be of an infectious nature have thus far eluded all efforts to discover their causative factors . In others micro- organisms ...
... possible only in a limited number of cases . Some of the most important diseases that are known clin- ically to be of an infectious nature have thus far eluded all efforts to discover their causative factors . In others micro- organisms ...
Page 64
... possible to cultivate them outside a living host on dead organic nutritive media . Had they been obligate parasites this would have been impossible , and it may be due to their obligate nature that certain , presumably present , species ...
... possible to cultivate them outside a living host on dead organic nutritive media . Had they been obligate parasites this would have been impossible , and it may be due to their obligate nature that certain , presumably present , species ...
Page 65
... possible by prolonged heating and by the application of particular chemicals to deprive certain bacteria of their power to form spores . By special methods of cultivation short bacilli have been induced to grow as longer threads . The ...
... possible by prolonged heating and by the application of particular chemicals to deprive certain bacteria of their power to form spores . By special methods of cultivation short bacilli have been induced to grow as longer threads . The ...
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... possible disseminator of this disease . The outbreak of typhoid fever at Wesleyan College , to which Conn directed attention , ' is believed by him to have been caused by the use of oysters that had been " fattened " in waters polluted ...
... possible disseminator of this disease . The outbreak of typhoid fever at Wesleyan College , to which Conn directed attention , ' is believed by him to have been caused by the use of oysters that had been " fattened " in waters polluted ...
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... possible channels through which the men could have become infected , the water - supply was finally subjected to investigation . The water used by the troops was supplied by two wells , one situated in the yard of the barracks near a ...
... possible channels through which the men could have become infected , the water - supply was finally subjected to investigation . The water used by the troops was supplied by two wells , one situated in the yard of the barracks near a ...
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Page 352 - College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and Walter S. Haines, MD, Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago.