A prize thesis on puerperal fever : for the degree of medicine in the University of New-York / by Ignacio Gutiérrez Ponce.

  • Gutiérrez Ponce, Ignacio.
Date:
1874
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Credit: A prize thesis on puerperal fever : for the degree of medicine in the University of New-York / by Ignacio Gutiérrez Ponce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    putrefaction will be. Oxigen> therefore, is a great antiputrefactive agent. The microscope has already revealed the exis- tence of some of these organisms and their cha- racteristic features. We recognize among the animal parasites, the cysticercus cellulosce, that invades the cellular tissue of the pork and the mutton; the trichina spiralis, that attacks the muscles ; the distoma hepaticum and so forth. Among the vegetable parasites we know of the oidium albicans, and more especially, the hacterice. This element has attracted great attention, because of the wonderful rapidity with which it is prop- agated through the system. If we examine the lochial discharge, under the microscope, we shall discover from the second to the fourth day a considerable number of bacterise and vibrions. These elements, however, disappear when putrefaction begins. But do they really disap- pear or assume another form? Dr. Quinquaud of Paris showed to the Biological Society en 1869 the phenomena observed when the stems Of certain vegetables were macerated. Water was imbibed through the peripheric lay- ers, and upon them very characteristic Amylo- hacteres were developed. Putrefaction had hot yet commenced; but towards the fourth or the fifth day the amylobacteres disappeared to be re- placed by simple bacterise; and finally, when putrefaction coUimenced, nothing but vibrions were to be seen. We cannot, therefore, determine by mere mi-