M0012593: Bacillus Tuberculosis and Bacillus Leprae (Leprosy)

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Bacillus Tuberculosis; Ehrlich's Method

Photograph of two images showing bacteria. Figure 1 (top) is Bacillus Tuberculosis, using Ehrlich's Method. It had cover-glass preparation of pus from a tubercular cavity of the human lung. Figure 2 (bottom) is Bacillus Leprae (Leprosy) showing a section of a kidney with a case of leprosy. This image was reproduced from Crookshank, Edgar M; An introduction to practical bacteriology : based upon the methods of Koch, London : H.K. Lewis, 1886. Related Images: M0012591, M0012592, M0012590, M0012594, M0012595, M0012596, M0012597

July 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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