tubercle-bacillus

And yet, rid the fat-cell of the weight of his sordid gains, gaunt him down, as it were, like a hound for the wolf-trail, and he becomes at once an active and aggressive member of the binding-stuff group, ready for the repair of a wound or the barring out of a tubercle-bacillus.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

All investigations, both of earlier and later date have established the fact that the tubercle-bacillus is inhaled with the air, and then it is mainly the foul air which is accused.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

Under what conditions is the tubercle-bacillus able to generate pulmonary consumption after it has entered the human organism?

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

Then the danger of contagion will be lessened resulting from the decrease of the number of tuberculous persons and of the tubercle-bacilli, and perhaps it will soon be possible to name the day on which with the last tubercle-bacillus the ravaging pest, tuberculosis, will be extirpated.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

But the tubercle-bacillus can also enter the body with the food, as stated before.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

In what manner does the tubercle-bacillus enter into the human organism?

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

Even before the discovery of the tubercle-bacillus by Koch, different scientists had claimed that pulmonary consumption was caused by the immigration of bacteria into the lungs, and several of them had found bacteria of that kind.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

A certain disease of the skin called _lupus_ (ringworm) must be counted in with the number of diseases generated by the tubercle-bacillus.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876