Jousset quoted two analogous instances in his practice, both of influential bronchitis, in which thesputa contained, for a certain period, Koch's bacillus.
I did so, and to my surprise the blood-streaked sputa again appeared after they had taken the remedy ix, one grain four times daily.
This appearance of blood in their sputa was the cause of a great anxiety to them and made them hurry over to my office.
Examination of thesputa showed distinctly the presence of Koch's bacilli.
I gave over the case at this time, and some weeks afterwards I learnt with surprise that the patient was well and growing fat, and that the inoculation of the sputa had produced no effects.
Fourteen years anterior to the researches of Koch, Hering, Swan and Biegler availed themselves, as a homoeopathic remedy, of the maceration of tuberculous lungs, and of the sputa of tuberculous subjects.
Cough with greyish expectoration; cough with thick sputa; short, dry cough in the afternoon; very troublesome cough with white sputaand tasteless.
Letzerich states that he has {839} succeeded in producing whooping cough in rabbits by inoculating the trachea with the sputa of the human subject.
Ludwig Letzench[41] asserts that he has produced some of the intestinal appearances of typhoid fever, as well as a high degree of pyrexia, in rabbits by the subcutaneous injection of the sputa and stools of typhoid fever patients.
Koch has found in examining thesputa from numerous cases of phthisis that the bacilli were present in one-half the number, and that they were absent from the sputa of individuals who were not phthisical.
All excreta, and more especially the sputa or discharges from the mouth or nose, are to be treated as dangerous.
According to Budd, thesputa in cases of typhoid fever where bronchitis is excessive may sometimes contain the germs of the disease, and mentioned a case in which he believed they were the means by which the disease was propagated.
Gangrene of the lung is very seldom recovered from, but, unless the diagnosis from examination of putrescent sputa has been at fault, there have been cases in which, with the limited destruction of the affected lung, it was not fatal.
Expectoration is often absent in these cases; where it exists the sputa are either mucous or muco-purulent.
Hallier found in the blood and sputa numbers of free cocci, which fructified upon various substrata, but was invariably the same fungus--mucor mucedo verus, Fres.
Tappeiner[55] succeeded in producing pulmonary tuberculosis, with or without general tuberculosis, in dogs, by compelling them to breathe air in which were contained minute particles of sputa from tuberculous pulmonary cavities.
Dolan obtained similar results by injecting the nasal secretions, and also by compelling rabbits to inhale air impregnated with decomposing sputa and vomit of patients suffering with the disease.
Cannot walk: Pneumonia of right lung, and I cough all day and all night: sputa rust of iron and bloody: distressing weakness.
The belchings from gas were loud and frequent; the sputa by actual measure was about six ounces during every twenty-four hours.
As soon as the stomach and bowels became empty there was comfort all along the line, and the cough was so diminished, that less than an ounce of sputa was raised in twenty-four hours.
I had the curiosity, during my attendance on this patient, to separate the mucus from the carbon, by the simple process of diluting the sputa with water, and thereafter separating and drying the precipitated carbon.
I ordered soothing expectorants, and the dark sputa were profusely voided, and ultimately disappeared; but whether any of the carbon had made a permanent lodgment in the pulmonary tissue, is what I have never been able to ascertain.
I should here remark that I had in examining the sputa of this patient sent to me, found some of the ague plants.
I saw you take the sputa of a ague patient and demonstrate the spores and sporangia of the Gemiasma verdans.
We must know whether there are merely streaks of blood which one often sees in the sputa of anybody who coughs hard, are of no importance, and have nothing to do with tuberculosis.
The patient's description of his sputa in gross, without any microscopic examination, is also of a good deal of use.
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