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

  • Nunneley, Thomas, 1809-1870.
Date:
1844
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    and scalp. On the fifth day the erysipelatous inflammation was much increased; the throat was painful, deglutition difficult and respiration accelerated. She died in a state of asphyxia on me seventh day from the commencement of her illness. The following testimony from three eye-witnesses is ol the most positive nature: . .. „roro « The parts affected with the erysipelatous inflammation were generally the tonsils, uvula, and fauces ; but such was the erysipe- latous tendency that wounds of all kinds, contusions, simple abra- sions, and common attrition of the cuticle, seemed to insuie to an individual exposed to the epidemic or contagious cause, an attack oi. one or other of the three forms. A common catarrhal exposure at this period was sure to lead to erysipelas of the fauces, &c, and the occurrence of one such case in a house, in a very short time led to the communication of the disease, in its several varie- ties, to most of the nurses and attendants Many of the cases which ultimately recovered were tediously and painfully pro- tracted, for instead of the topical affection of the throat subsiding within a week, with a diminution of the fever, this still continued ; the erysipelas gradually made progress along the floor of the nares, and soon appeared on the face, spreading over the head, extending oftert to the back, chest, loins, and nates ; giving rise to the necessity of evacuating several large purulent depots under the fascia of the parts affected; and leaving the patients in a deplorable state of debility.1 In the spring of 1824, an epidemic of a peculiar character, which appeared in the Merchants' Hospital, came under the notice of Dr. Abercrombie. Its leading features were a slight erysipe- latous affection of the throat; in some the internal fauces were studded with aphthous crusts, in others they were swollen, and in not a few the gums were spongy and the lips encompassed with irritable ulcers. While the disease was raging in the Hospital, many cases of a similar nature occurred to the Doctor in his pri- vate practice. In these the internal fauces were of a dark red, but not swollen, and this redness was interrupted by aphthous crusts. The lining of the nose in general became tender, and discharged a copious morbid secretion, and the inflammation ultimately came °U«w01? the faCe' assumi,)g the character of common erysipelas.1 downtheXn'T T16 int^eStin8 cases of erysipelas spreading savla wri te VJ1^ r n^ P the **&**& the Iectum' ^^!^JXi?a^hwu^a Review>and relates the heacTandfofef ou'd^s^Xfth H?Pital had ^^ ^the * Med. Chirg. Trans v0] i7 Y tln'°at beCame atfeCted> the Membranous Lining of'the LJIm?'h?*T~ Mt Wood on Inflammation of the °n.e£°rm Foresl?s> of a similar kind! qU°tes tW0 cases frora Latour> and ^WV^^^^!??^0™ Epidemic PuPeraI F™. a< Patho,oglca, and Practical Researches', pp. 200-206.