Cases of erysipelas accompanied by affection of the throat : with remarks on the propriety of limiting the application of the term / by James M. Arnott.

  • Arnott, James Moncrieff, 1794-1885.
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[1826]
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Credit: Cases of erysipelas accompanied by affection of the throat : with remarks on the propriety of limiting the application of the term / by James M. Arnott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASES OF ERYSIPELAS ACCOMPANIED BY AFFECTION OF THE THROAT; ■WITH REMARKS ON THE PROPRIETY OF LIMITING THE APPLICATION OF THE TERM, BY JAMES M. ARNOTT, ESQ. SniGEON. The connexion of erysipelas of the face with an inflammatory affection of the throat, is a circumstance to which attention has not hitherto been much directed ; whilst the question of the contagious nature of the disease is one still considered sub judict. Were the following cases solitary examples of the lormer pathological fact, they would not perhaps merit being recorded; but, taken in conjunction with others which have been recently published,* they may probably possess some interest; and they bear also upon the question of the occasionally contagious character of the disease. In the remarks which succeed, I shall endeavour to employ these cases for the elucidation of the nature of erysipelas of the face itself, and afterwards attempt to allow the propriety of re- stricting the application of this term, to one morbid condition, instead of continuing to apply it, as at present, to several having little pathological relationship. The cases occurred in one family. The mother was first affected with inflammation of the pharynx, terminating in mortification. On her death, the husband was attacked with inflammation of the throat and erysipelas of the face. As he • By Dr. Stevenson, in the second volume of the Transactions of the Medico- Chirurgical Society, Edinburgh, 1826,