Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — Dead Bacteria Dangerous. [ARTICLE]

Dead Bacteria Dangerous.

One result of bacteriological research is the distinction between infective and intoxicative diseases. In the former the general multiplication of micro-organisms in the body of the patient is the Balient feature, while in the latter poisoning is the cause of the malady. Thus, states a well-known authority, the dead bodies of typhoid bacilli, although destitute of all infective properties, are yet toxic when Introduced into animals in virtue of the intracellular poisons they contain. Accordingly, in the case of many diseases formerly regarded as purely infective, it has npw become apparent that, in addition to tne infective, the poisonous properties of the invading bacterial cells must be taken Into account.