Remarks about the Drum Membrane, with Cases
E. D. SPEAR · New England Journal of Medicine · 1887
peculiar province of fermentative organisms to effect.We are justified, therefore, in looking upon filth and sewage as the grand culture medium of fermentative organisms, the special soil in which flourishes the most formidable cause of summer diarrhoea.Removal from this contaminated environment would, therefore, be demanded by theory, and is approved by practice.It can readily be seen, however, that the advantage which extra-urban residence naturally possesses can be nullified for any particular place by unhygienic local conditions.The insufficient drainage of a coun-