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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...by Gram's method. Morphologically it is a small non-motile rod 1-2 p in length. On gelatin it forms a whitish growth without liquefaction, like that of the colon bacillus, but confined to the needletrack. It produces alkali, forms no gas, and does not curdle milk. Broth remains clear, with a whitish stringy fioeculent deposit. The bacillus grows readily and rapidly. MacConkey has found that the fermentation reactions of this organism and of the plague bacillus are practically identical (see " Plague, '7 p. 471), and sterilised cultures of either will protect against the other. Ovine caseous lymphadenitis, a disease of sheep simulating tuberculosis, is due to a short, plump bacillus with rounded ends which stains well by Gram's method, and grows best on blood serum, on which it forms greyish colonies.1 1 Sixteenth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Animal InduM. U S.A., p. 638. H.B. 26 Much finds in the glands in Hodgkin's disease antiformin-resistant bodies, non-acid-fast, and similar to the non-acid-fast tubercle bacilli which he has described (see p. 396). Leprosy Leprosy, elephantiasis Graecorum or true elephantiasis, is a disease of which we have records from the earliest times. It was undoubtedly somewhat prevalent in the British Isles from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as the many leper-houses and enactments against lepers testify, though no doubt other skin diseases, psoriasis, lupus, etc., were at that early period of medical diagnosis confounded with it. At the present day leprosy, although extinct in the British Isles, may be said to have a worldwide distribution, for it is met with in Iceland and Scandinavia, Russia and on the Mediterranean coasts; in Persia, India, China, Siberia, and Japan; in Africa from north to south; in many districts of the...
