The New England Medical Gazette, Volume 20Medical Gazette Publishing Company, 1885 - Homeopathy |
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Page 298 - Disinfection of ingesta. — It is well established that cholera and typhoid fever, are very frequently, and perhaps usually, transmitted through the medium of infected water or articles of food, and especially milk. Fortunately we have a simple means at hand for disinfecting such infected fluids. This consists in the application of heat. The boiling temperature maintained for half an liour kills all known disease germs.
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Page 297 - Disinfection of Excreta, etc. — The infectious character of the dejections of patients suffering from cholera and from typhoid fever is well established ; and this is true of mild cases and of the earliest stages of these diseases as well as of severe and fatal cases. It is probable that epidemic dysentery, tuberculosis, and perhaps diphtheria, yellow fever, scarlet fever and typhoid fever may also be transmitted by means of the alvine discharges of the sick.
Page 297 - It seems advisable also to treat the urine of patients sick with an infectious disease with one of the disinfecting solutions below recommended. Chloride of lime, or bleaching powder, is, perhaps, entitled to the first place for disinfecting excreta, on account of the rapidity of its action.