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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 613 of 653pus but always of decayed fibrin, the detritus of tissue and decoposed serous pus.Formerly these abscesses were regarded by Rokitansky as pyjemicmetastases and attributed to an infection of the blood by purulenmatter. Virchow has however shown by numerous experimentsthat these abscesses are the result of embolia ; in other words tthey are caused by the transfer of particles of tissue from one pto another; that pure pus never engenders pysemia, but that itmust be in a state of decomposition and contain decayed fibrin anPyemia. 729that it is the entrance of the latter into thf circulation whichcauses the obstructions in the bloodvessels tjiat are afterward tformed into abscesses.Etiology. Most frequently pysemia arises from suppurationsin the interior of organs, from the downward burrowing of abscesses, purulent inflammations of joints, gangrenous localizatioduring the course of phlebitis, periphlebitis, metrophlebitis, lyangioitis, endocarditis; in the course of puerperal fever, typhusvariola; in consequence of suppurations after surgical operationswounds, etc. Decomposition of the pus is an indispensable condition for the development of pysemia. This decomposition isoccasioned by a want of cleanliness, vitiated air, crowding of sirooms with wounded men, effusion of urine into the cellular tissuaccess of air into open wounds or ulcers.The infection of the blood is supposed to emanate from thedecayed purulent serum.SympUrms* The pysemic process almost always commenceswith a chill followed by intense heat. Sometimes the chills recurin such a manner that the heat is mingled with chilly creepings oeven severe paroxysms of chills. The pulse at once becomes hurrieas soon as the pysemia sets in ; it is seldom below one hundred,small and easily compressible. In most cases delirium sets induring the heat, with restlessness, heat of the head, dulness ofthe sensoriuni and tendency to sopor. The patients feel very muchexhausted, the appetite is entirely gone, thirst intense, the tonbecomes dry, cracks, the teeth are covered with brown sordes, thenostrils look sooty. Sometimes aphthse form on the mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces. Very often bronchial catarrh,pneumonia and pleuritis supervene. The bowels are generallyconstipated, the skin is hot and dry, sometimes icteric or lividelse profuse sweats break out, with sudamiua or numerous pustulesSubcutaneous abscesses are very frequently accompanied by erysipelas of the skin, inflammations of internal organs by violentparoxysms of fever and local pains, purulent effusions into articcavities by painfulness and swelling of the joints.Very frequently the abscesses become flabby and lax, and theircontents change to ichor; the wounds assume a sickly appearanceand become diphtheritic. In such cases profuse diarrhoeic stoolsoften set in, or hemorrhages from internal organs, bedsores orpartial paralysis.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt