Manual of the antiseptic treatment of wounds : for students and practitioners / by W. Watson Cheyne.

  • Cheyne, William Watson, Sir, 1852-1932.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Manual of the antiseptic treatment of wounds : for students and practitioners / by W. Watson Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    will be found of a spreading abscess formation in rabbits, where masses of micrococci were always seen preceding the in- flammation, the injection of a minute quantity of these micro- cocci being always followed by the same progressive suppuration. There seem to be other forms which can cause abscess only if the part has been previously injured or inflamed. Thus in .. ^SW^, ?~ :...•> '-;$ -• *?-3l» •' -. s- ''*N\'* '' * Fig. 3. Section of kidney, showing in the upper corner a mass of micrococci, a clear necrotic ring and a layer of inflammation, as in fig. 2. In the centre is the further stage of the process : the inflammatory cells and the micrococci have now infiltrated the necrotic ring, and an abscess is the result. (For further details as to figs. 2 and 3 see 'Brit. Med. Journal' for Sept. and Oct. 1884.) abscess in the mamma during the early period of lactation the primary lesion is probably an inflammation resulting from an injury, cold, &c.; the micrococci then settle in the part, grow, and cause suppuration. c2