A treatise on the nature, causes, and treatment of erysipelas / by Thomas Nunneley.

  • Nunneley, Thomas, 1809-1870.
Date:
1844
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    ble, redness less florid, irregular, extending; with debility, often with typhus; terminating generally and rapidly in gangrene. Species 1. Erythema — External phlogosis of a pink colour, dis- appearing on pressure ; pain burning ; terminating generally in branny scales, often in phlyctenae or vesicles, at last in gangrene. Var. 1. Mitis—Pernio, from cold; — Combustio, from violent heat. Var. 2. Maligna — Anthrax. Dr. M. Good has also made a distinction between the local and general affection, but he has used the word erythema as the gene- ric term, and has classed under it those forms of disease, which, by many preceding nosologists, were regarded as well-marked speci- mens of erysipelas/ Class Hsetnalica, Order Phlogotica — Fixed heat and pain or soreness ; increased secretion : lesion of a particular part or organ, mostly accompanied with fever. Gemis Erythema — Red, gla- brous, tumid fulness of the integuments ; disappearing on pressure ; pain burning; inflammation ulcerative; terminating in cuticular scales, or vesicles ; occasionally in gangrene. There are seven species— 1. E. cedematosum, 2. E. erysipelatosum, 3. E. gangre- nosum, 4. E. vesicularum, 5. E. anatomicum, 6. E. pernio, 7. E. intertrigo. Class 3. Hsematica, Order Exanthematica — Cutaneous erup- tion, essentially accompanied with fever. Genus Emphlysisz— Eruption of vesicular pimples, filled progressively with an acrid or colourless, or nearly colourless fluid ; terminating in scurf, or laminated scales. Species E. erysipelas — Vesication diffuse; irregularly circumscribed ; appearing in a particular part of the body, chiefly in the face, about the third day ; with tumefaction and erythematic blush ; fever usually accompanied with sleepiness, often with delirium. Var. a. E. locale. Var. b. E. erraticnm. Erysipelas makes one of six species into which Emphlysis is divided; the Thrush, Cow-Pox, and Water-Pox, being included with it. Rayer, like Willan and Bateman, whom he very closely follows in their subdivision of these diseases, bas made distinct genera of erythema and erysipelas ; both of which,however, he places under the order exanthemata. He defines erythema thus:h Erythema is a non-contagious exanthem, with or without fever, characterised by one or more red spots, varying from some lines to many inches in diameter, and spread over one or many parts of the body; the ordinary duration of which, in an acute case, is from one to two weeks. His seven varieties correspond with those of Bateman. Of erysipelas he says, — Erysipelas is an extensive and non-contagious exanibematous inflammation, characterised by a red colour of the skin, with swelling of the sub- ' Good's Study of Medicine, by Cooper.— 3d. Edit., Vol. ii., p. 364. 8 Vol. iii., p. 69. h Traite des Maladies de la Peau, 1836 —See Art. de Erytheroe et Ery- sipele, 2*