Bacterial flora in blood samples collected during an autopsy for routine testing of ethanol concentration / Flora bakteryjna w próbkach krwi rutynowo pobranych do badan na zawartosc etanolu podczas autopsji.

Blood samples collected during autopsy for routine ethanol testing, preserved with sodium fluoride were subjected to the following microbiological tests: microscopic evaluation, cultures on differentiating proliferating media and identification of isolated strains. It was found that sodium fluoride did not entirely inhibit bacterial growth. The majority of the isolated bacteria were Gram-negative rods, with E. coli as the most frequent strains.

[Examination over a foreign body left inside during an operation of a lumbar spine]. / Badanie nad cialem obcym pozostawionym w trakcie operacji kregoslupa ledzwiowego.

Procedure of an examination over a gauze swab removed during a repeated operation of a patient who had undergone earlier a neurosurgical operation of a lumbar spine has been described. The extracted gauze swab became an exhibit in a case at court for financial compensation. The court commissioned to explain "if it could be placed in another way than leaving it during the former surgical operation". The neurosurgeon who performed the former operation decidedly denied that the gauze swab in question could have been left by him. Hemogenetic and histologic examination gave basis to the statement that the exhibit was left inside during the former neurosurgical operation.