Isolation, identification and cultural characteristics of tubercle bacillus

Abstract

Introduction: Introduction. - Tuberculosis, one of the most wide spread of deadly diseases with which we have to deal, has been proved to be due to the presence of a specific micro-organism tubercle bacillus. Every year in the United States alone, a hundred thousand people die from this dread destroyer. The disease when once fairly established is extremely rebellious to the present mode of treatment and is treated by physicians with little hope of accomplishing a material improvement in the patient. Fortunes are spent every year by consumptives, in a vain attempt to find a cure for their disease. Tuberculin, creosote, cinnamic acid and various other materials have been used with more or less success in modifying the disease. Innumerable researches have been carried on with the object of finding the facts in the life history of this organism.