Tubercle of the Urinary Organs

Tuberculosis of the Urinary Organs

IN a large proportion of cases of tuberculosis of the urinary and genital system the sequence of events is as follows :-First the kidney is affected, then the ureter and bladder; later the vesicula, prostate, vas deferens, epididymis, and testis may be involved in the male subject. In the great majority of cases the bladder symptoms predominate, so that the case is often sent to the surgeon wit...

The Surgical Disease of the Urinary Organs

organs. The volume consists of twenty-five lectures, three on urethral stricture, one on the urethroscope, catheterisation of the ureters, etc. Then follows two lectures on enlargement of the prostate and its symptoms and complications. Chapter VII gives a lucid description of the author's well-known operation and the next four chapters deal with the scope and limits of this operation and the o...

The Surgical Disorders of the Urinary Organs

The Fate of Tubercle Bacilli in the Organs of Reinfected Rabbits

In agreement with previous work (6) it was found that in normal rabbits after a primary inoculation of 0.01 mg. of human tubercle bacilli the organism shows a preliminary growth, which commences at once in all the organs, and reaches its height in the second week in the liver, spleen, and bone marrow; thereafter destruction begins, and is practically complete by the sixth week in the liver and ...

The Fate of Human and Bovine Tubercle Bacilli in Various Organs of the Rabbit

In this study the attempt has been made to follow the fate of tubercle bacilli in the lung, liver, spleen, kidney and bone marrow of rabbits infected intravenously with large and small doses of human and bovine tubercle bacilli by determining the number of colonies recoverable from similar quantities of tissue on egg media at varying intervals during the course of infection. This method offers ...