. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures : a textbook for students and physicians. ORY DISEASES, ETC. uterus becomes gangrenous; some of the cases of puerperal fever aresepticaemia. It will be evident to you that the term septicaemia essentially de-pends on the etiology, just like the group of typhous diseases;and that mild septic-traumatic fever has the same relation to septi-cemia that typhus febricula has to typhus; in fact, the name septicfebricula has been proposed. Still, as typhus in its different formsis characterized by its symptomatology and pathological anato
. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures : a textbook for students and physicians. ORY DISEASES, ETC. uterus becomes gangrenous; some of the cases of puerperal fever aresepticaemia. It will be evident to you that the term septicaemia essentially de-pends on the etiology, just like the group of typhous diseases;and that mild septic-traumatic fever has the same relation to septi-cemia that typhus febricula has to typhus; in fact, the name septicfebricula has been proposed. Still, as typhus in its different formsis characterized by its symptomatology and pathological anatomy, thisis also the case in septicaemia, although in it the pathologico-anatomicalappearances are slight. Now, what characterizes the course of septi-caemia ? The nervous symptoms deserve the first mention: the patientsare apathetic and sleepy, if not entirely comatose; rarely there is fear-ful excitement, and occasionally maniacal delirium; at the same timethe subjective feelings are good; the patients do not suffer much. Thetongue is dry, often as hard as wood, which renders the speech very Fig. Fever-cnrve in septicaemia after extirpation of an immense lipoma, from between the muscles of the thigh. Death. peculiar; the patients are thirsty, but rarely drink, on account of then-great apathy. Not always, but very frequently, there is profuse diar-rhoea, more rarely vomiting. At first there may be great sweating, SEPTICAEMIA. 349 later the skin is dry and flabby. The urine is scanty, very concen-trated, and occasionally albuminous. As the disease progresses, thepatient passes his urine and fasces in bed. Bed-sores over the sacrumoccur early. The fever (as shown by the bodily temperature) at firstrises high, in acute pure septicaemia intercurrent chills never occur inthe course of the disease, and initial chills are very rare; later in thedisease the temperature falls to the normal or even below it; usuallythe patient dies in perfect collapse, with a thread-like, very frequ
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