Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, and in the strength of 1 in 20 carbolic acid completely sterilised tubercular sputum when shaken up with it for one minute.
The bacilli or spores of tubercle present in sputum in great abundance cannot, by any chance whatever, infect the air until, and unless, the sputum dries.
A small particle of sputum or pus is placed between two clean cover-glasses and thus pressed between the thumb and finger into a thin film.
Tubercular sputum distributed in salt solution does not lose its virulence by being kept at 100° C.
From driedsputum it has, of course, been many times isolated, even after months of desiccation.
The sputum or the discharge will, during the acute stage of the disease at all events, contain countless numbers of the bacilli, which may thus be readily detected, and their presence used as evidence of the disease.
But a very large mass of experimental evidence attests the fact that the air in proximity to dried tubercular sputum or discharges may contain the specific bacillus of the disease.
But when in the course of time the sputum dries, then the least current of air will at once infect itself with the dried spores and bacilli.
With a little practice the staining of the bacillus of tubercle when present in pus orsputum becomes a very simple and accurate method of diagnosis.
The diplococcus of Fraenkel is a small, oval diplococcus found in the "rusty" sputum of croupous pneumonia.
If the sputum received during the night in a vessel is flushed in the morning with warm water, while some impurities remain upon the surface, the putrid matter will sink to the bottom (sputum fundum petens), and the indications are fatal.
If thesputum thrown upon the coals emits a fetid odor, it is a sign of confirmed ptisis, which is incurable.
Since the disease is known to be spread by the sputum, the prime measure in the prevention of this disease is to prevent the sputum from the sick being taken into the system of well persons.
This is a measure which tends to control the spread of a good many diseases besides measles, because during coughing and sneezing sputum may be thrown several feet.
The care of the sputum (expectoration) is, however, the essential means of preventing contagion.
But, generally, examination either of the lungs or of the sputum will decide the matter, one or both giving positive information.
Such a one should immediately apply to a physician for examination of the chest, lungs, andsputum (expectoration).
The disease is contagious, that is, it is capable of being communicated from a consumptive to a healthy person by means of the germs present in the sputum (expectoration) of the patient.
He found numerous eosinophil cells in the sputum of an asthmatic patient, but only neutrophil cells in an artificially produced suppuration of the skin.
With this point in mind Ehrlich has subjected the sputum in emphysema and brown induration of the lungs to exact examination for 20 years.
Gollasch has found that the sputum of asthmatic patients contains, in addition to Charcot-Leyden's crystals, eosinophil cells only.
And if ordinary sputumis not rich in eosinophils in spite of a marked eosinophilia of the blood, this only corresponds to our experience in general.
He shewed that in the sputum of patients with myelogenic leukæmia no more eosinophil cells were present than are commonly to be found in the bronchial secretion, although the blood was unusually rich in eosinophil cells.
Sidenote: Tuberculosis Germs] The germ of tuberculosis is probably conveyed oftenest through the sputum of consumptives, when this sputum has been allowed to dry, has become pulverized and is breathed into the system.
From this the patients understood it was the same medicine that had been given to them on the last occasion and begged me not to give it again, as the appearance of blood in the sputum frightened them, in spite of all my assurance.
Bacillus tuberculosis) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tubercles and tuberculosis.
Defn: A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
Cases in which the clinical history and physical signs make the diagnosis certain (presence of tubercle bacilli in the sputum render, of course, any other test unnecessary).
Sputum cups, or a proper substitute, should be furnished to patients to take home.
He showed the presence of the bacilli in all known tuberculous lesions and in tuberculous expectoration, and demonstrated the virulence in sputum which had been dried for eight weeks.
On report cards and sputum blanks is the statement: "All cases of tuberculosis reported to the department will be visited by a nurse from this department unless otherwise requested by the physician.
The Hospital recommends paper napkins where the quantity of sputum is small; if there is no possible means of burning the sputum, it should be treated with a strong solution of concentrated lye and then poured into the water closet.
Burnitol sputum cups without holders are used; the bottom of each cup holds a small amount of sawdust, which serves the purpose of hindering the sputum from penetrating through the cup.
The sputumis from there thrown into receptacles containing sawdust, taken to the incinerator and burned twice daily.
Paper sputum boxes are changed twice daily, inspected as to character, quantity and presence of blood.
Sputum of every patient should be examined once a month; patients should be re-examined once a month, and the results entered on the records.
Paper handkerchiefs and bags are recommended when the quantity ofsputum is small.
A room specially equipped for the disposal of sputum is recommended.
By means of the stethoscope, which he invented in 1819, he recognized the physical signs and made the first careful study of the healing of tuberculosis; he gave also one of the best accounts of the sputum of the consumptive.
Some clinics made no provision for sputum beyond a cuspidor; others provided gauze or paper napkins when patients entered the room.
Both sputum cups and the large container holding sawdust are sterilized by live steam.
It is well known, too, that the sputum of a consumptive contains myriads of virulent tubercular germs.
It has been shown that the excretion from a fly that has fed on tubercular sputum contains tubercular bacilli that may remain virulent for at least fifteen days.
It has long been observed that flies are particularly fond of sputum and will feed on it on the sidewalk, in the gutter, the cuspidor or wherever opportunity offers.
There were never any positive signs of hysteria, and our own opinion is that the case is much better called one of extreme simulation and misrepresentation, as in the diabetes and sputum affairs, etc.
She was found to be running a slight temperature, and some slight hemorrhages in the sputum were observed.
Since the Fairy Tale Era of the human race, sputum has been employed to give potency to charms and to curses.
But sputumhad also a place in the Greek and Roman rituals.
He should be very careful lest a child suddenly cough fine sputum containing the bacillus into his eyes.
The bacillus does not float in the air of even the sick-room, except in those cases where dried sputum is stirred up by sweeping or attrition of other kinds.
Collect sputum by having the patient discharge the sputum into a small, sterile screw-top jar or urine specimen cup.
But inoculate some of the sputum under the skin of a mouse and three or four days later the pneumococcus will have entered the blood stream (leaving the saprophytes at the seat of inoculation) and killed the animal.
The pneumococcus for example occurs in the sputum of patients suffering from acute lobar pneumonia, but usually in association with various saprophytes derived from the mouth and pharynx.
Upon injecting cultures from this sputum into guinea-pigs, the latter died in one-quarter of the time that it usually took them to succumb to a similar dose of an ordinary culture of the pneumococcus.
The amount, character and odor of sputum are important.
Offensive odored sputum should always suggest bronchial foreign body; but absence of sputum, odorous or not, should not exclude foreign body.
Failure to find them is not conclusive, though their absence is much more significant when the sputum is purulent than when it is mucoid.
Eosinophilic leukocytes are quite constantly found in large numbers in the sputum of bronchial asthma near the time of the paroxysm, and constitute one of the most distinctive features of the sputum of this disease.
Blood-streaked sputum is strongly suggestive of tuberculosis, and is more common in the early stages than later.
The pneumococcus is the causative agent in nearly all cases {36} of croupous pneumonia, and is commonly found in large numbers in the rusty sputum of this disease.
This sputumis seen during the stage of red hepatization.
Prune-juice" sputumis said to be characteristic of "drunkard's pneumonia.
The mucoid sputum from an incipient case sometimes contains great numbers, while sputum from large tuberculous cavities at times contains very few.
Ordinary pus-cells are easily recognized in sputum stained by any of the methods already given.
When the examination is begun, the sputum should be spread out in a thin layer in a Petri dish, or, better, between two small plates of glass, like photographic plates.
Examination of thesputum is most conveniently {25} considered under three heads: I.
It is the sputum after its discharge from the body on which our attention must be fixed.
In tuberculosis of the lungs, or consumption, this waste material is thrown off with the sputum [spittle].
While the sputum is moist it can, as a rule, do no harm, unless it should be directly transmitted to those who are well by violent coughing, sneezing, etc.
Slight abrasions on the tongue will be noted and the sputum will become a little bloody.
Besides, there are a large number of eosinophiles in the sputumitself entangled within the filaments of the spirals and an eosinophila of the blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sputum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
