Infectious Diseases: A Practical Textbook (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

Excerpt from Infectious Diseases: A Practical Textbook

To discuss bacteriology in relation to the infectious diseases, or to attempt to give any descriptive account of the processes connected with immunity, would be quite foreign to the purposes of a book which concerns itself with the actual state of health of the infected individual. Every student of to-day has ample Opportunity Of acquiring during his curriculum the main elementary facts connected with both subjects, and the latter in particular, with its complicated experiments and its chaotic terminology, does not lend itself satisfactorily to. Condensation. It has been proved that many of the diseases to be discussed in the following pages are due to the invasion of the human organism by specific bacteria. It is reasonable to assume that the others, whose etiology still remains Obscure, will be found to depend on a similar cause. The infecting micro-organism, however, need not necessarily be a bacterium. Microscopic animal parasites have been proved to be responsible for malaria, and some observers hold that both small-pox and scarlet fever are probably the results of protozoal infection. The spirillum of relapsing fever is also held to be of this nature.

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