INDEX TO VOLUME II 



587 



Torsion of arteries. See Arteries. 

 Torsion of vessels : in amputation, 394. 

 Torula cerevisiae : discovered by Cagniard-Latour in 

 1836, 479. 

 and independently bv Schwann in following year, 



470- 

 Tourniquet : invention of, 381 {and footnote). 



Tourniquet, Esmarch's elastic, 394, 395. 

 Tourniquet, screw : use of, in amputation, 394. 

 Toussaint : facilities aff()rdcd to author by, for 

 experiments at the Ecole Veterinaire of Tou- 

 louse, 281. 

 Toxin, special : formed by each poisonous microbe, 



508. 

 Toxins of bacteria : chemically altered and made 



harmless by iodoform, 356. 

 Toxins : poisonous products of bacteria, 508. 

 absorbed into blood and diffused through body, 

 508. 

 Tube, drainage. See Drainage. 

 Tubercle bacillus : always present in pyogenic 

 membrane of chronic abscess, 347. 

 Yersin's experiments on agents having germi- 

 cidal action upon, 351. 

 killed more quickly by carbolic acid than by 



corrosive sublimate, 352. 

 as found in phthisical sputum, Crookshank's 

 experiments on, 352 ; these show destructive 

 power of carbolic acid on, 352, 353. 

 need not be feared in surgical work if sponges 



steeped in i in 20 carbolic lotion, 353. 

 discovered by Koch, 502. 

 Tuberculin : reaction produced by, followed by 

 improvement, 508. 

 apparent cures only transient, 508. 

 its use for diagnostic purposes in cattle, 509. 

 TuUey : achromatic object glasses made by, at 

 suggestion of Dr. Goring, 543. 

 his description of his microscope with acknow- 

 ledgement of indebtedness to J. J. Lister, 

 544 ; novelties in the instrument, 544. 

 Tumour, parotid : carbolized sponge used by 



Syme after removal of, 224 {footnote). 

 Tyndall, John : investigation on dust in atmo- 

 si)hcre by means of beams of condensed light, 



175- 

 liis proof that cotton wool filters air of contained 



particles, 176, 178. 

 liis lecture on Dust and Disease, 176 {footnote). 

 Typhoid fever : healing of intestinal ulcers in, 450. 



Ulcer : healing of, by scabbing, 147. 



rapid healing and antiseptic dressing of, 448, 449. 

 Ulcer, rodent, of face : excision of, 240. 

 antiseptic treatment of, 241, 243. 

 skin grafting after, 244. 



cicatrization of, under boracic ointment, 243, 

 244. 

 Ulcers : treatment of, under gauze and protective, 

 196; illustrative case, 196. 

 boracic acid as an antiseptic dressing for, 229, 

 232. 

 Ulna, fracture of. Sec Fracture. 

 Union by first intention : under water dressing, 

 287. 

 rationale of rules of the older surgery in aiming 



at, 288. 

 has no longer the importance attached to it in 

 pre-anaesthetic surgerv, 289. 



Urethra, healthy : bacteria cannot grow in mucus 



of, 288. 

 Uretliral mucous membrane : when healthy, free 



from septic organisms, 237. 

 Urine : in flasks with bent necks, exposed to air, 



no putrefaction in, 55. 

 Urine, boiled : development of organisms in, when 

 exposed to air in wineglass, 56. 

 mere raising of temperature to boiUng point 



insufificient to destroy germs, 58. 

 how particles from air are arrested in flasks with 



bent necks, 58, 173. 

 experiment on putrefaction of, 173. 

 remains unaltered in flasks with bent necks for 

 nearly four years though exposed to atmo- 

 spheric gases, 174. 

 cause of putrefaction in, 486, 487, 488. 

 Urine, vmcontaminated : addition of drop of water 

 to, causes bacteric development, 277. 



Vaccination : confers less permanent protection 

 than small-pox, 505. 

 small-pox modified by, 505. 

 should be completed by revaccination, 505. 

 use of calf lymph with antiseptic precautions 



should be encouraged by government, 506. 

 ' conscientious objections ' would then cease to 



have any rational basis, 506. 

 administration of regulations should be trans- 

 ferred to competent sanitary authorities, 506. 

 ' Vaccins ' : for protecting animals against anthrax 



(Pasteur), 504. 

 Varicose veins. See Veins. 

 Variolae vaccinae : correctness of %new implied in 



that expression endorsed by Pasteur, 504. 

 Vascularization of blood-clot : under antiseptic 



treatment, 153. 

 Vaso-motor function : experiments on, in frog, 



530- 

 Vein, bleeding : method of stitching with catgut 



threaded through coats, 272, 274. 

 Veins, varicose : bleeding stopped by antiseptic 



removal of mass and ligature, 271. 



progress of case, 274. 

 Vcrduin (Amsterdam) method of amputation by 



single flap, i^^, 384. 

 Vermale : method of amputation with two flaps, 



3''^4- 

 Vertebrae, caries of. See Caries. 

 Vibrio : cholera, 503. 



Vibrios : in abscess in Nicinity of colon, 42 {foot- 

 note). 

 chief agents in putrefaction, 47. 

 their quickening of motion in fluid, 47. 

 in putrefying pus, 4S2. 

 spring from similar organisms. 4S2. 

 Vinous fermentation. See Fermentation. 

 Virchow: reference to his ' Cellular PathologA- ' in 

 footnote. 150. 

 his teaching on the proliferation of cells, 542. 

 Virus, attenuation of. in fowl cholera suppilies 

 explanation of difference of \-irulence of 

 disease in ditTorent epidemics, 504. 

 application of principle in production of im- 

 munity against anthrax, 504. 

 analogy witli vaccination against anthrax, 504. 

 Virus of hydrt)phobia : rointorcoment of, in rabbits, 

 507. 

 cliemical poison in, 507. 



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