A Text-book Upon the Pathogenic Bacteria and Protozoa: For Students of Medicine and Physicians

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W. B. Saunders, 1912 - Bacteriology - 878 pages

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Page 384 - These observers, in a case of abortion with subsequent infection, found the patient "emphysematous from the top of her head to the soles of her feet
Page 579 - A house may be said to be infected with yellow fever only when there are present within its walls contaminated mosquitoes capable of conveying the parasite of this disease. 10. The spread of yellow fever can be most effectually controlled by measures directed to the destruction of mosquitoes and the protection of the sick against the bites of these insects. 11. While the mode of propagation of yellow fever has now been definitely determined, the specific cause of this disease remains to be discovered.
Page 3 - BACTERIA. — For students of medicine and physicians. By Joseph McFarland, MD, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; Pathologist to the Philadelphia Hospital and to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia.

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