Acute contagious diseasesLea Bros. & Company, 1905 - 781 pagina's |
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acute affection albumin albuminuria antitoxin appearance attack bacilli become blood catarrhal cause cells cent chickenpox child commonly complication condition confluent convalescence course cowpox crusts cutaneous death rate degeneration desquamation developed diagnosis diphtheria disease disinfection doses early epidemic eruption erythema exanthem extremely exudate fatal fauces frequently gangrene glands glycerin hemorrhagic incubation infection inflammation infrequently inoculation instances intubation Jenner kidneys larynx later Lennox Browne lesions leukocytes lymph measles Medical mild months mortality mucous membrane Municipal Hospital nephritis observed occur papules paralysis patient period persons physician pock present pulse purulent pustules rare rash regarded reported result revaccination rubella scarlatina scarlatiniform scarlet fever scars seen serum severe skin smallpox solution stage streptococci suppuration surface swelling symptoms temperature theria throat tion tissue tonsils toxin treatment tube typhus fever ulceration unvaccinated urine usually vaccination vaccinia varicella variola varioloid vesicles virus vomiting weeks writers
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Pagina 145 - The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid : but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory; and the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Pagina 146 - The small-pox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the...
Pagina 146 - ... you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch) and puts into the vein as much venom as can lie upon the head of her needle...
Pagina 146 - Every year thousands undergo this operation; and the French ambassador says pleasantly, that they take the small-pox here by way of diversion, as they take the waters in other countries.
Pagina 735 - We desire to bring out strongly and clearly the fact that it matters not from what point of view the subject is regarded, if the evidence now at command is properly weighed, but one conclusion is or can be reached, whether we consider the percentage of mortality from diphtheria and croup in cities as a whole, or in hospitals, or in private practice; or whether we take the absolute mortality for all the cities of Germany whose population is over 15,000, and all the cities of France whose population...
Pagina 146 - England ; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue for the good of mankind. But that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it. Perhaps, if I live to return, I may, however, have courage to war with them.
Pagina 488 - It consists of small, irregular spots, of a bright red color. In the centre of each spot, there is noted, in strong daylight, a minute bluishwhite speck. These red spots, with accompanying specks of a bluish-white color, are absolutely pathognomonic of beginning measles, and when seen can be relied upon as the forerunner of the skin eruption.
Pagina 735 - ... purpose of comparison with previous results, the conclusion reached is always the same, namely, there has been an average reduction of mortality from the use of antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria of not less than...
Pagina 94 - Although she was ill seven days before the special symptoms of smallpox appeared, the eruption in those who took it from her, or from others who did so, commenced at the end of the third, or beginning of the fourth day. The editor of the journal in which this case is inserted, refers to two which recently occurred in the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, in which the " separate system
Pagina 35 - On the seventh day he complained of uneasiness in the axilla, and on the ninth he became a little chilly, lost his appetite, and had a slight headache. During the whole of this day he was perceptibly indisposed, and spent the night with some degree of restlessness, but on the day following he was perfectly well.