This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...is found, the abscess is reached by a trochar and cannula. The dressings should be changed twice daily. If all is going well the temperature will fall to normal. Imperfect drainage or septic infection will keep the temperature up, and the conditions should be rectified on the usual lines. If the temperature ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...is found, the abscess is reached by a trochar and cannula. The dressings should be changed twice daily. If all is going well the temperature will fall to normal. Imperfect drainage or septic infection will keep the temperature up, and the conditions should be rectified on the usual lines. If the temperature still keeps up, notwithstanding antiseptic douches and drainage, then it is probably due to further abscesses, which should be promptly sought for. Pathology.--In nearly every case the right lobe is involved, and in 70 per cent. of cases the right lobe only. In about half the cases the abscess is a solitary one. The abscesses are generally near the surface, and may vary in size, some being only i millimetre in diameter, others occupying a whole lobe. MADURA-FOOT Definition.--A tropical disease characterized by chronic enlargement of the foot (or occasionally the hand), the formation of sinuses, and inflammatory degeneration. Geographical Distribution.--The disease is endemic in East Africa, Madura, Delhi, and other Indian districts, especially in Kashmir and the Punjab. Sporadic cases have been reported from China, North Africa, Madagascar, Cuba, Demarara, Malaya, etc. History.--Kdmpfer was the first to call attention to the disease, in 1712. Carter first recognized it as a mycosis. Etiology.--It is chiefly a disease which attacks middle-aged natives. The specific cause is a schizomycete--Cladotl(rix mycetomcc. This has not been isolated yet from soil or vegetable matter. Symptoms.--Some abrasion forms the site of inoculation. Painful or painless induration results, and eventually breaks down in about eight weeks to form a fistula, which discharges white or black granules, resembling ' fish-roe.' The condition is repeated at various foci, ..
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