BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Koenigsberg ; - he was educated at Berlin, and 

 later in life (1882-92) was professor at Zurich. 

 In 1873 the micro-organism of relapsing 

 fever was discovered. To Obermeier, of Ger- 

 many, belongs the credit for this discovery. 



In 187s the germ theory of disease was 

 pretty generally accepted, at least by the scien- 

 Dawn of tific world. In that year Lord Lister, an 



Antisepsis. English surgeon, who later (1877) was pro- 



fessor in King's College, London, began the 

 use of antiseptics in surgery. He based his 

 experiments upon the discoveries of Pasteur. 

 Carbolic acid solution was the first substance 

 used by Lister in his surgical operations, and 

 thus was ushered in the era of antiseptic surg- 

 ery. Only thirty-five years have passed, and 

 yet to what gigantic proportions has grown the 

 use of substances to either destroy germs or to 

 prevent their doing mischief by stopping their 

 growth! Carbolic acid solutions still remain 

 in common use. 



The bacillus of leprosy,* the bacillus leprae, 

 was discovered by a German scientist, Hanson, 

 in 1879, ^^^ i"^ the same year the micro-coccus 

 of gonorrhoea by Neisser. (Neisser is also of 



*In July, 1904, Rost, of the medical staff in India, 

 reported that he had succeeded in cultivating the bacillus 

 of leprosy and from the cultures had made a substance 

 he called "leprolin," which, when injected into the tissues 

 of lepers, had a marked beneficial effect. 



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