Observations on the Opsonic Index of Patients Undergoing Sanatorium Treatment for Phthisis

Abstract

1677 a case can be made out for each of the other organisms as for the tubercle bacillus. How good this case is, becomes, as I say, a matter for academic discussion. I am of opinion that the ease is as good as It is for most other diseases having ,universally accredited causes. May I refer to one other paragraph in Dr. Bastian's letter of December i6th ? The writer says: In accordance with strict bacteriological principles, such sub-mortem flndings of bacteria might be explained by supposing that the bacteria which are usually " destroyed " in the blood during life are often able to survive during the last hours of life in persons dying from chronic diseases. This possibility seems to have escaped Dr. Horder when he spoke so confidently about his proof of the " agonal invasion."