A short note on peritoneoclysis, hypodermoclysis, and vesicoclysis in cholera : a paper read before the Bombay Medical and Physical Society, February 6, 1885 / by Cameron Macdowall.

  • Macdowall, Cameron Joseph Francis Stuart, 1832-
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[1886]
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Credit: A short note on peritoneoclysis, hypodermoclysis, and vesicoclysis in cholera : a paper read before the Bombay Medical and Physical Society, February 6, 1885 / by Cameron Macdowall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IL As I have already stated in a note, the experiments of Piietsch and Nicati were such formidable surgical operations in themselves, and so likely to cause septicaemia, that even they are not conclusive, especially in the case of guinea-pigs. I think it was Prof. Syrne who, seeing a guinea-pig die before chloroform was administered and the vivisection begun, said laughingly to Prof. Bennett, the experimenting physiologist:— ' The sight of our knives has been too much for it; it's dead of fright.' Indeed, mere rough handling has been known to kill guinea-pigs. In Berlin laudanum is given them also, before operating, to favour the absorption of the bacilli. The alcohol alone is enough to kill them almost, if not the opium (as they are graminivora). 1 should here say something of the researches of Professor Emmerich (of Munich) in Naples. In per- fectly sterilised receptacles (tubes) he obtained blood directly from moribund cholera patients, and in it dis- covered very small, straight bacilli with rounded ends. After death he found the same bacilli in almost all the internal organs, especially in the kidneys. The careful criticisms on all this, in the Berlin Medical journals, really add some weight to the discovery, such as it is. I must here prominently call attention to the fact that all pathologists now agree that Vandyke Carter of Bom- bay was right when he long ago declared the comma bacillus to be the result of fission of some spirillum, and probably a mere phase or chapter of its life history. It has not been my purpose throughout this short paper to attempt anything like a history of the biology and morphology of comma-shaped baciUi; but as peritoneoclysis, hypodermoclysis, vesicoclysis, are all more or less based on what, in the language of practijj^ners of