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Disease (GERM THEORY OF periods)

GERM THEORY OF periods: development, expression, and a series of intervals either tending to improvement, or confirmed conditions of ill-health, according usually as the disease is of the acute or of the chronic form. The form of disease may be neurotic, dynamic, adynamic, constitutional, constitutional , malignant, hereditary, cutaneous , etc.

The usual tendency of disease, from the vis medicatrix naturæ, is toward recovery.

DISHONOR remains only a theory, scientific knowledge of the relation has been established in respect to an ever-enlarging group , including such diseases as erysipelas , gonorrhea, diphtheria, influenza, anthrax , actinomycosis, cholera, typhoid, tuberculosis, infantile spinal paralysis , tetanus, leprosy, malaria, pneumonia, syphilis, and relapsing fever.

Culture, cover-glass preparation and animal inoculation are the methods employed in modern bacterial examination, coagulated blood serum, Litmus milk, glucose agar-agar, potato agar-agar, and coagulated blood serum, Litmus milk, glucose gelatin are employed as culture media. In the technique employed in cover-glass preparation the pathological material is obtained during life and streaked certain processes of heating to fix it, is placed under the microscope and examined. In animal inoculations the material is inserted or injected under the skin of a mouse or guinea pig, the progress of the malady is watched; and after death autopses of the organs are made. The presence of tuberculosis is ascertained by examination of the sputum by cover-glass preparation , and by parallel methods the bacillus of diphtheria, the plasmodium of malaria, and the germs of other diseases are indicated. over cover-glass, and after