A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . of low specific gravity, of adirty yellow or reddish color, and had a putrefactive smell and a ten-dency to irritate the skin. It was termed ichorous pus. Sanious puswas an ammoniacal or strongly acid pus mixed with blood. Otheradjectives are used to describe various conditions and appearances ofpus ; thus, curdy, gummy, scrofulous, sanguinolent, contagious pus andmuco-pus are terms often heard, but most of them are indefinite a
A manual of modern surgery : an exposition of the accepted doctrines and approved operative procedures of the present time, for the use of students and practitioners . of low specific gravity, of adirty yellow or reddish color, and had a putrefactive smell and a ten-dency to irritate the skin. It was termed ichorous pus. Sanious puswas an ammoniacal or strongly acid pus mixed with blood. Otheradjectives are used to describe various conditions and appearances ofpus ; thus, curdy, gummy, scrofulous, sanguinolent, contagious pus andmuco-pus are terms often heard, but most of them are indefinite andunscientific. At the present time the occurrence of pus is believed tobe due to infection of the wound by micro-organisms; hence no puscan be called healthy. Gonorrhceal infection is a condition which is due to the gonococcus,and produces, when a mucous membrane is affected, a discharge of mucous membrane of the vagina or male urethra is most frequentlythe seat of the primary infection, but the mucous membranes of theeye and nose are sometimes affected primarily. The eyes of childrenare frequently infected during passage through the birth canal. This. 42 DESTR UCTIVE INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES. is the ophthalmia of newborn children. With gonorrhoeal infectionthere is often combined a pyogenic infection. Other symptoms ofgonorrhoeal infection are arthritis, pleuritis, salpingitis, metritis, peri-tonitis. It is a true infection. Tests.—Pus mixed with other fluids can be detected by the addition of solution of potassa, with which itFlG- 4- forms a gelatinous mass. Micro- scopic examination discloses thecharacteristic spheroidal semi-trans-Av #) // Parent motionless corpuscles, aboutA ^sVo of an inch in diameter, con-taining granules and broken upnuclei. The nuclei are made more—c distinct by the addition of diluteacetic acid. Examination with suit-able illumination and sufficientlyhigh oil-immersion lenses will bringto light the micro-organisms toPreparation sho
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