An experimental examination of mesenteric glands, tonsils and adenoids : with reference to the presence of virulent tubercle bacilli / by Allan MacFadyen, M.D., and Alfred MacConkey, M.B. from the Bacteriological Department, Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine.

  • Macfayden, Allan, 1860-1907
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[1903?]
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Credit: An experimental examination of mesenteric glands, tonsils and adenoids : with reference to the presence of virulent tubercle bacilli / by Allan MacFadyen, M.D., and Alfred MacConkey, M.B. from the Bacteriological Department, Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table. No. Sex Age Post-mortem Report Microscopical Examination of Glands Result of Inoculation I F. 14 mths. Old empyema; no obvious tuberculosis... Negative Negative. 2 F. 4 yrs. Tuberculous meningitis ... Negative Positive. 3 F. 7 mths. Empyema; meningitis; gut normal Negative Negative. 4 M. 7 mths. Acute diarrhoea ; lobar pneumonia; no intestinal lesions Negative Negative. 5 F. 6 mths. Pertussis; broncho-pneumonia ... Negative Positive. 6 M. — Broncho-pneumonia Positive Positive. 7 F. 9 mths. Tuberculous meningitis; scattered grey tubercles in lung; caseous bronchial glands ; no caseous glands round ab¬ dominal aorta Negative Positive. 8 M. 2\ yrs. Multiple skin abscesses yielding staphy- loccus pyogenes aureus only; thrombo¬ sis of cerebral sinuses Positive Positive. 9 M. 1 yr. Broncho-pneumonia; no intestinal lesions Negative Negative. 10 — 1 yr. Died suddenly ; no intestinal lesions ; nil found post mortem Negative Negative. 11 M. 4i yrs. Acute miliary tuberculous Negative Positive. 12 M. i yr. Tuberculous broncho-pneumonia Negative Negative. 13 M. If yrs. Measles; broncho-pneumonia ... Negative Negative. 14 M. 1 yr. Broncho-pneumonia; no tuberculous lesions Negative Negative. 15 M. 4 mths. Broncho-pneumonia; no tuberculous lesions Negative Negative. 16 M. 2 yrs. General tuberculosis; tuberculous menin¬ gitis Negative Negative. 17 M. IT\ yrs. Broncho-pneumonia; no tuberculous lesions Negative Negative. 18 M. 15 dys. Wasting; jaundice; no tuberculous lesions discoverable Negative. 19 F. 6-| yrs. General tuberculosis Mesenteric glands Bronchial glands ... Left cervical glands Right cervical glands Negative Positive Positive Negative Positive. Positive. Positive. Positive. 20 1 yr. Purulent cerebral meningitis Enlarged mesenteric glands Gland from bifurcation of trachea — Negative. Negative. 21 M. 5 yrs- General tuberculosis Negative Positive. 22 F. Stillborn • •• ••• , , , , , , , . » >•• Negative Positive. 23 Septic meningitis ... Mesenteric glands... Right bronchial glands ... Left bronchial glands — Negative. Negative. Negative. 24 F. 8 yrs. Mitral and aortic disease ... Adherent pericardium Mesenteric glands... Right bronchial glands ... Left bronchial glands — Positive. Negative. Negative. 25 M. 5 mths. Intussusception Peritonitis ... — Negative. 26 F. ItV yrs. Empyema; septic meningitis — Negative. 2 7 M. 2 yrs. Meningitis ... — Negative. 28 M. 4 yrs. General tuberculosis Negative. The experiments have shown that in the non-tnberculous cases virulent tubercle bacilli were present to the extent of 25 per cent. The tubercle bacilli, it appears from these experiments, are present