On the origin of pyaemia : a reply to the question suggested by the council of the British Medical Association, "Are there any trustworthy facts as to the origin of pyaemia?" / by Alfred Baker.

  • Baker, Alfred, 1815-1893.
Date:
1866
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    ON THE ORiaiN OF PYEMIA. The term Pyaemia implies pus in the blood; and it has been applied to certain morbid conditions of the system in which the circulating fluid has its con- stituents altered, and its distribution disturbed, whether these results follow its admixture with pus or with any other morbid agent. Notwithstanding Piorry's statement that the blood itself is subject to inflammation, in which disorder pus-corpuscles were supposed to be intermixed in large proportion with the true blood-globules; Gul- liver's imaginary discovery of pus-globules in the blood of persons sufi'ering under typhoid diseases; and the subsequent declaration by Mayo, that pus- globules existed in the blood of every one; it is now believed that pus cannot be recognised in the blood by any known distinctive characters, and that the cells observed by these gentlemen, and mistaken for pus-cells, were really white blood-globules. During the course of wasting diseases, especially if the lymphatic glands be affected, these white globules are often met with in considerable excess; and they are not infrequently too numerous in the subjects of pyaemia, although there is no necessary