On erysipelas and its treatment by perchloride of iron / by William Pirrie.

  • Pirrie, William, 1807-1882.
Date:
1861
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Credit: On erysipelas and its treatment by perchloride of iron / by William Pirrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before the local mischief; but there are other striking- points of resemblance between them, which it may be well to notice in a very brief manner. Thus, in some instances, after most of the symptoms have greatly sub¬ sided, and the disease apparently run its wonted course, it seems to take a fresh start, and recommences with all its previous severity, although the sufferer may have been removed from every known unfavourable agency. The erysipelatous virus further conforms to the general laws of poisons in attacking more or less violently some in¬ ternal organ, while there is no retrocession of the ex¬ ternal inflammation, in having certain favourite channels , or emunctories for its elimination, and in being followed by certain critical discharges. Judging from my own experience, bronchitis would appear to be the most fre¬ quent of all internal inflammations in cases of the disease in question ; for I have never seen pn example of erysi¬ pelas of the head and face, in which bronchitis of a milder or graver character did not declare itself at some period or another. Very often the inflammation would appear to be so superficial as not to occasion any par¬ ticular annoyance, and consequently the invalid may not make any mention of it to his medical attend¬ ant whose suspicions are perhaps first excited by hear¬ ing an occasional cough during his visit. On more particular inquiry, the patient will allow that he has a little cough, and it may be, a little expectoration ; and on applying the stethoscope to the chest, distinct rhon- chus, or crepitus, or both, are heard throughout the