THE MICROBES OF HUMAN DISEASES. 233 
primary disease, characterized by the inflammation of 
the skin, and sometimes as a secondary complication 
of wounds, sores, and surgical operations. In any case, 
the course taken by the disease and its contagious 
nature enables us to assume the presence of a microbe. 
Martin, Volkmann, and Hiiter found bacteria in the 
patches of skin; and Hayem found them in the pus of 
meningitis, which followed erysipelas of the face. 
Lukomski was able to inoculate rabbits with the 
disease, which may also be communicated by vaccine 
_ lymph, taken from a child suffering from erysipelas. 
Fehleisen has cultivated the microbe in a pure state, 
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and has inoculated man with it, always reproducing 
erysipelas with its characteristics and typical course. 
Antiseptics, such as carbolic acid and analogous sub- 
stances, employed either as outward applications or as 
subcutaneous injections, have been successful in many 
instances in arresting the development of the disease. 
Erysipelas serves as the transition to those diseases 
within the domain of surgery, and which are generally 
due to sores, wounds, and operations. 
