On the "sero-diagnosis" of typhoid fever / by A. Sheridan Delépine and E.J. Sidebotham.

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
Date:
[1896]
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Credit: On the "sero-diagnosis" of typhoid fever / by A. Sheridan Delépine and E.J. Sidebotham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cultures are remarkably uniform. The bacilli are extremely motile and are evenly distributed through the fluid. The simplicity of the method may induce clinicians to use it at the bedside. I doubt whether this would be a wise application. The whole method depends for its success on the purity of the cultures, on their being in an active state of growth, on their being free from clumps, and on the observations being made by men to whom bacteriological observations are so familiar as to prevent those many slight sources of inaccuracy which attend experiments made by those who are not in constant training. The very simplicity of the method is for these reasons a source of danger, and I would not be surprised if the generalisation of the method were attended by disbelief in its value if it is to be used indiscriminately by anybody who happens to possess a tube labeled typhoid bacillus and a platinum loop.