Volume 1

An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / George Hume Weatherhead.

  • Weatherhead, G. Hume (George Hume), 1790?-1853.
Date:
[1819]
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Credit: An essay on the diagnosis between erysipelas, phlegmon, and erythema : with an appendix, touching the probable nature of puerperal fever / George Hume Weatherhead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in slight cases, was owing to the effusion of serum into the equal and continuous extension of cellular membrane, I thrust a lancet into the part most tumid and soft, when serum, tinged with the blood from the puncture, flowed from the aperture; by squeezing I could urge the fluid at pleasure, though distant from the orifice, through the puncture, leaving the com- pressed part wrinkled and flaccid. This effused serum frequently remains unab- sorbed long after the other symptoms of the disease have wholly disappeared. It is an cedema always difficult to remove; for if the effusion be not discussed by absorption as the erysipelas decreases, it is a sure mark of topical lymphatic debility induced by the disease, or it is consecutive of general systematic relaxa- tion. Its presence is a proof of debility, either — ‘local or general. Bichat mentions a case of oedema following an erysipelas, where “ malgre un bandage compressif il (l’avant-bras) n’avoit pas encore reprit tout-a-fait’son volume naturel un mois aprés la disparition de l’erysipele.” / ie ©