Identifier: 39002011126704.med.yale.edu
Title: A manual of the modern theory and technique of surgical asepsis
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Beck, Carl.,1856-1911
Subjects: Surgery, Aseptic and antiseptic
Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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, Fig. 3), first described by Passet, is dis-tinguished from other staphylococci only by thelemon-yellow color of the cultures it produces.It is found only in abscesses. The streptococcus pyogenes (Figs. 6, 16) is oneof the most important varieties of the pyogeniccocci. The arrangement of the cocci is in rows orin chains ; generally from six to ten rows are at-tached to one another. Unlike the staphylococci,they grow in small pin-point colonies, and do notliquefy gelatin. Their sites of predilection arein the secretions of the vagina, the urethra, thenose, and in the saliva. The streptococcuspyogenes is the cause of erysipelas, endocarditisulcerosa, grave polyarthritis, and of spreadinginflammatory and metastatic processes (like post-operative peritonitis and puerperal pyaemia, forinstance). It can be stained with aqueous anilinedyes and by the method of Gram. The streptococcus erysipelatis (PI. I., Fig. 1) can-not be distinguished from the preceding coccus. SURGICAL ASEPSTS. Plate I.
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