Microbes in fermentation, putrefaction, and disease / by Charles Cameron.

Date:
1882
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Credit: Microbes in fermentation, putrefaction, and disease / by Charles Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    formidable disease. Had time permitted I should have- liked to have said something about the microbes described as associated with other diseases. I should especially have wished to refer to the proofs which Professor Villemin has adduced to show that tuberculosis is a disease of microbic origin—what different microbes have been said to have been discovered in connection with it, and how Toussaint appears at length to have discovered the right one, and has found it to increase in virulence under artificial culti- vation.* 1 should have liked to speak of the extiaoidinaiy and important results reported by M. Talamon in con- nection with diphtheria, which only require confirmation by independent observers to render that formidable scourge one of the most thoroughly understood of our diseases. I should have liked to point out the manner in which the whole subject has been shown to bear upon the mysteries of hydrophobia, these again upon the nature of the poison of snake-bites and the possibility of their cure, and that again upon the existence of an unsuspected poison in human saliva. One might, in fact, advert to all these and many more topics, pregnant with promise to the future of medicine and humanity, and yet leave the subject un- exhausted, with much still to be said about the part, played by microbes in fermentation, putrefaction, and disease. * This was written before the result of Koch’s conclusive researches into the connection between microbes and tubercles were known in this country. PRINTED BY GUNN AND CAMERON, FLEET STREET, DUBLIN.