Excerpt from Philadelphia Medical Times, Vol. 8: January 19, 1878
Prof. Lister made his d bz? Into London medical societies the other evening at the Pathological Society. There was a large gathering of members, probably more to see him than from interest in his subject-matter, Laftz’c Fermentation in Relation to Pd t/zo/ogy. The lecture was very different from the ordinary staple matter of the So ciety’s transactions. An elaborate account of his method of performing his experiments on milk was illustrated by specimens of milk preserved completely since August last, and others illustrating different forms of milk-fer mentation. He showed that the sourfermen tation of milk was due to the presence of the motionless bacterium lactis, - a comparatively rare form of bacterium, rarely found else where than in dairies. Other bacteria set up fermentation, but of quite a different charac ter to that set up by the milk bacterium. Prof. Lister spoke for an hour and a half, without notes, never once hesitating amidst his very difficult subject, with its minute details, and impressed his audience very favorably indeed. Profs. Burdon Sanderson and Charlton Bas tian spoke after Mr. Lister, - the one pro posing a vote of thanks, the other seconding it. Some account of Prof. Lister’s experiments might be interesting to your readers, but it would simply be impossible by words to con vey any adequate idea of the nature of the experiments and their wonderful minuteness in detail, and of the care which enabled the glass plates, with their glass covers, contain ing small wineglassfuls of milk, preserved since last August, to be brought from Edin burgh to London without breakage or spillincr. Altogether, Prof. Lister’s introduction to the London societies may be regarded as an ac complished success. For years Mr. Lister has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of London as well as of that of Edinburgh.
In this season of brow/11713, it may be prae tically useful for your readers to know the great utility of strychnine as a true expecto rant by its action upon the respiratory centre. Like ammonia, it does not act upon the mu cous lining of the air-tubes, but upon the nervous centres of the respiration. The ex periments of Prokop, Rokitansky, and others, with this agent, show that it has a decided action in stimulating the respiration by acting upon the respiratory centre in the medulla oblongata. Ammonia acts in the same manya. 19, 1878.
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