Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff.

  • Wolff, Abraham, 1819-1892.
Date:
1872
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    ICG Surgery,” mentions a case of six students who were infected by the body of a patient who had died of peritonitis. Two had suppuration of the areolar tissue under the pectoral muscles and in the axilla, one a kind of maniacal delirium, a fourth had typhoid fever, and the remaining two were seriously indisposed.* Case IX. In the month of December, 1870, five of the clerks in a Bread Street warehouse were simulta- neously seized with feverish symptoms and obliged to leave their employment. These men all slept in the same building and worked in the same room. Three of them, after suffering for a week with mild fever symptoms, were enabled to resume their occu- pation. A fourth had & severe attack of small-pox and was taken to the Small-Pox Hospital. The fifth lay for a month in St. Thomas's Hospital with symptoms of enteric fever. All these men had been vaccinated during infancy. “ A very close relationship appears to exist be- tween scarlatina and diphtheria and one variety at least of enteric fever. All are for the most part autumnal diseases, and they may be observed to * The case may be cited of the late Mr. Potter, of U. C. H., who died of dissection wound fever. The nurses who attended upon him subsequently suffered from erysipelas.—Ericlisen's Surgery.