CHAPTEE XIX 



TETANUS (LOCKJAW) BACILLI ; SCALES 

 OF THE SOLE 



WHATEVER else there may be of 

 importance or otherwise in these 

 chapters, there can be no doubt as to the 

 interest of the discovery made quite recently 

 by a medical friend. The extremely useful 

 purposes to which photo-micrography can be 

 applied have rarely met with a better illus- 

 tration. 



The doctor was called to see a child 

 seriously ill, and he diagnosed the trouble 

 as tetanus in its most virulent form. As a 

 result of a strict investigation as to its cause 

 the fuller's earth used by the nurse came 

 under suspicion, especially as tetanus bacilli 



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