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7. Researches on Micro-Organisms, including ideas of a new Method for their Destruction in certain cases of Contagious Diseases. Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

A. B. Griffiths
A. B. Griffiths
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Principal and Lecturer on Chemistry and Biology, School of Science, Lincoln; Science Master in the Lincoln Grammar School, &c
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In the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xiv. [No. 123], pp. 97–106, there is a paper of mine under the above title. I wish in the present memoir to communicate to your distinguished Society further details relative to these investigations. The principle of these researches is to find some germicidal agent capable of destroying the microbes of disease, which have been proved to reside in the blood, and are the causes (directly or indirectly) of certain contagious diseases. At the same time, an aqueous solution of such an agent, while destroying the microbes of disease, must have very little or no detrimental action upon the blood. Having found such a substance, the rationale is to inject (hypodermically) a solution of the microbe-destroyer directly into the blood. By so doing, the destruction of the pathogenic organisms in situ would be the result.

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Proceedings 1887-88
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 15 , 1889 , pp. 33 - 63
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1889

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note * page 39 Agar-agar can be obtained from Christy & Co., 25 Lime Street, London, at 3s. per lb.

note * page 42 The translator of Heine's ‘Religion and Philosophy in Germany,’ also ‘Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos, from the Prose of Heinrioh Heine.’ (Trübner & Co.)

note * page 44 Although I had been experimenting with Bacillus tuberculosis for some time, there were no chances of my cultivation plates and tubes becoming contaminated with Bacillus tuberculosis from sputum, &c, or with foreign microbes. They were inoculated from the envelopes in a room (with closed doors and windows) away from my laboratories ; and further, I had changed my clothes and disinfected my hands.

note * page 46 Tap-water was used in preference to distilled water, on account of the mineral matter it contains—the micro-organisms requiring small quantities of mineral matter.

note * page 47 Any information received from this source will be embodied in another paper communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

note † page 47 “Three teaspoonfuls of the mixture to be taken between meals in coffee or tea.”

note * page 48 The Cholera Microbe, and how to Meet it, by Sir C. Cameron, LL.D., M.P., &c, p. 25.

note † page 48 Archiv für Experimental Pathol, 1879 ; and also Tommasi-Crudeli's memoir, ‘Der Bacillus malariæ in Erdboden von Seliunte und Campobello,’ Archiv für Exp. Pathol., 1880.Google Scholar

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note * page 55 A paper read before the British Association, August 1887, and published in the Chemical News, vol. Ivi. p. 132.Google Scholar

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note * page 61 See ‘On some Points in the Pathology of Rheumatism, Gout, and Diabetes,’ by DrLatham, P. W. (The Croonian Lectures for 1886.)—A.B.G.)Google Scholar