. Oral sepsis in its relationship to systemic disease . ofother unrelated infectious diseases with which an indi-vidual may be afflicted. This influence is often quitemarked. The ill effect of chronic mild infections of thenose and throat upon tuberculous individuals is recog-nized, and proper local measures are looked upon as an 79 80 ORAL SEPSIS important part in the regime for the treatment of tuber-culosis. Oral sepsis also may exert an unfavorable in-fluence upon the course of tuberculosis and marked im-provement may follow the removal of abscessed to the observations of m


. Oral sepsis in its relationship to systemic disease . ofother unrelated infectious diseases with which an indi-vidual may be afflicted. This influence is often quitemarked. The ill effect of chronic mild infections of thenose and throat upon tuberculous individuals is recog-nized, and proper local measures are looked upon as an 79 80 ORAL SEPSIS important part in the regime for the treatment of tuber-culosis. Oral sepsis also may exert an unfavorable in-fluence upon the course of tuberculosis and marked im-provement may follow the removal of abscessed to the observations of my friend, Dr. RichardL. Sutton, chronic infections of the skin, such as acneand furunculosis, are often favorably influenced by theremoval of focal infections in which streptococci maybe the dominant organisms. In a patient with staphylo-coccus aureus septicemia a fall of four degrees in tem-perature occurred several hours after the removal of achronically abscessed tooth which showed a pure growthof streptococcus viridans on culture. The temperature. Fig. 165. Fig. 165.—Case of staphylococcus septicemia of about two months duration. Tem-perature, which has been constantly reaching 102° or over each day. dropped to normala few hours after the extraction of the tooth shown in the above illustration andremained normal for ten days. The case ended in complete recovery. The rootapices showed streptococcus viridans in pure growth when cultured. remained normal for ten days following this, and thecase eventually recovered. The temperature had reached102° each day for the previous two months. (Fig. 165.) The ill effect of focal infections upon individuals withsyphilis of the nervous system is very great indeed. Thiswill be dealt with in some detail on account of its greatpractical importance. The Wassermann test made as aroutine in one thousand medical cases observed in officepractice was positive in 11 per cent. Involvement of thenervous system was found clinically and verified b


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