Paper, 'Note on the discovery of bacilli in the condensed aqueous vapour of the breath of persons affected with phthisis' by [Arthur] Ransome

Description

Ransome writes: 'In the year 1869 I communicated to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester a paper “On the Organic Matter of the Human Breath in Health and Disease” (Memoirs, vol. iv, 3rd Series, p. 234). The method employed was to condense the vapour of the breath in a large glass globe, surrounded by ice and salt; and the fluid so collected was then examined chemically and microscopically. The vapour in condensing was found to carry with it all the organic matter contained in the breath. Certain chemical variations in this fluid were noted, and in addition to epithelial scales, which were also found in health, the breath of diseased persons was found to contain certain organised bodies.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Pathology

Received 9 November 1882. Communicated by William Roberts.

A version of this paper was published in volume 34 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on the discovery of bacilli in the condensed aqueous vapour of the breath of persons affected with phthisis'.

Reference number

PP/2/29

Earliest possible date

1882

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

2 pages

Format

Manuscript