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THE EFFECT OF AGITATION UPON THE MICROBE.
461 found, had retained their activity.
It would appear from minute vibrations have the of micro-organisms as well as violent shocks, while if either treatment be continued the germs at length die. The reason why the vitality of the cell is thus cut short is not quite clear but apparently the cells cohere and form a palpable powder. Further experiments in this direction would be very interesting with the view of determining as to how far the process would be effectual in regard to the destruction of microbes in food. At the present time the oyster trade would welcome such a method could it be shown that it effectually destroyed the bacilli of the colon series in the oyster without disturbing its structure or spoiling its flavour. In which case the guaranteedagitated native " would be in brisk demand. The shaking, however, would have to be severe, no less than 180 reversed movements per minute over a distance of 15 inches being necessary.
On being made to stoop firbt time after the accident. clear watery fluid flowed from the nose, principally from the left nostril. With difficulty he was persuaded to re-enter the hospital. Next morning he complained of severe frontal headache and the flow had stopped. The temperature was 1020 F. and he began to be heavy and stupid. Unconsciousness and symptoms of meningitis followed and death took place on the twenty-seventh day after the fall. The necropsy
this
interesting experiment that power of hindering the growth
showed meningitis, several’fine cracks in the frontal bone, and a slit in the basi-sphenoid three-quarters of an inch long and one-sixteenth of an inch wide, through which a fine probe could be passed into the nose. The posterior end was close to the pharyngeal end of the left Eustachian tube. Mr. Larkin thinks that the deafness and otitis were probably due to pressure on the Eustachian tubes from swelling of the parts. He refers to another still more remarkable case previously recorded by him in which fracture of the frontal bone extending into the fronto-ethmoid region resulted frjm a bicycle accident. The patient recovered from the injury and resumed work but was much annoyed by a AN EXEMPLARY SENTENCE FOR CRUELTY. watery discharge from the nose. This suddenly stopped A CASE of child-farming which was recently decided at the six weeks after the accident. The patient seemed quite well but occasionally complained of frontal headache. Middlesex Quarter Sessions is remarkable in more ways than Nine months after the accident he died from menin- one. The accused were persons living in comparative comgitis. Only one other case of cerebro-spinal rhinor- fort, a retired clerk, his wife, and daughter, with a total rhcea after fracture of the skull in which the diagnosis income of about £ 160 a year. They had under their care no In this one, fewer than nine children, the eldest aged seven years and the was verified by necropsy has been recorded. there was a of the fracture cribriform two youngest 10 and 11 months respectively. With most of reported by Bosworth, of the ethmoid and death on the occurred plate eighteenth these children sums of money varying from
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It would appear from minute vibrations have the of micro-organisms as well as violent shocks, while if either treatment be continued the germs at length die. The reason why the vitality of the cell is thus cut short is not quite clear but apparently the cells cohere and form a palpable powder. Further experiments in this direction would be very interesting with the view of determining as to how far the process would be effectual in regard to the destruction of microbes in food. At the present time the oyster trade would welcome such a method could it be shown that it effectually destroyed the bacilli of the colon series in the oyster without disturbing its structure or spoiling its flavour. In which case the guaranteedagitated native " would be in brisk demand. The shaking, however, would have to be severe, no less than 180 reversed movements per minute over a distance of 15 inches being necessary.
On being made to stoop firbt time after the accident. clear watery fluid flowed from the nose, principally from the left nostril. With difficulty he was persuaded to re-enter the hospital. Next morning he complained of severe frontal headache and the flow had stopped. The temperature was 1020 F. and he began to be heavy and stupid. Unconsciousness and symptoms of meningitis followed and death took place on the twenty-seventh day after the fall. The necropsy
this
interesting experiment that power of hindering the growth
showed meningitis, several’fine cracks in the frontal bone, and a slit in the basi-sphenoid three-quarters of an inch long and one-sixteenth of an inch wide, through which a fine probe could be passed into the nose. The posterior end was close to the pharyngeal end of the left Eustachian tube. Mr. Larkin thinks that the deafness and otitis were probably due to pressure on the Eustachian tubes from swelling of the parts. He refers to another still more remarkable case previously recorded by him in which fracture of the frontal bone extending into the fronto-ethmoid region resulted frjm a bicycle accident. The patient recovered from the injury and resumed work but was much annoyed by a AN EXEMPLARY SENTENCE FOR CRUELTY. watery discharge from the nose. This suddenly stopped A CASE of child-farming which was recently decided at the six weeks after the accident. The patient seemed quite well but occasionally complained of frontal headache. Middlesex Quarter Sessions is remarkable in more ways than Nine months after the accident he died from menin- one. The accused were persons living in comparative comgitis. Only one other case of cerebro-spinal rhinor- fort, a retired clerk, his wife, and daughter, with a total rhcea after fracture of the skull in which the diagnosis income of about £ 160 a year. They had under their care no In this one, fewer than nine children, the eldest aged seven years and the was verified by necropsy has been recorded. there was a of the fracture cribriform two youngest 10 and 11 months respectively. With most of reported by Bosworth, of the ethmoid and death on the occurred plate eighteenth these children sums of money varying from
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