,as Nott,


- ansom


, Huxley


Tyndall.


Alished


beyond


doubt,"


says Schrceder


(op. cit.),


se organic substances, be they the gasaeous products Qf


ve processes


in the animal


or vegetable kingdom,


germs, or


microscopical


animalcules


floating in


ua:pbere, do reach the lungs in the current
i-are there capable of doing great mischief."


t of


air inspired,


"The observa-


<rf Scbhreder, and especially of Pasteur," says Parkes


"are


etiology."


likely to have an important


" The septic condition of


influence on the doctrines


the air, as Dr. Sander-


has termed it, derives importance from the possibility of


concerned


in the


production


some


so-called


inotic diseases."


r:When we know that wounds and sores


on the surface of


y are


10ease,


so injuriously affected


" and that so great a


operations can
aftacee, we m
I


wrought


ay well imagine


by these


change


preventing


germs


result


their


how injurious an


or "seeds of


surgical


access to raw
influence may


produced on ulcerations and


other


diseased


processes going


:.'..eon in



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B~~ti; '.
BV!*teapii'

T:." t*e. -


lungs,


whenever these


vhich is constantly brought
ration.


one.


-This agent is supposed


purity of the


of oxygen,


atmosphere, being


bodies


are abundant


in the


in contact with them through


be closely connected with


apparently a


more active


and converting injurious substances floating in


inert compounds.


subject


is, however, in a


other chaotic state as yet.


Within tbe last year or two numer-


a 'observations


in different


Ite ,by medical men


parts


mostly;


' the country have been
is extremely doubtful if


7of these have much


practical


value, from


the fact that we


pot yet in the possession


of any reliable


test, of


one which


ti 4 the reaction of this agent and of no other which might


. 1.tr'r


Schn bein'e


papers


have usually


Otor bo4iee are preeo
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