On the nature, causes, statistics, and treatment of erysipelas / by Peter Hinckes Bird.

  • Bird, P. Hinckes (Peter Hinckes), 1827-1891.
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[1858?]
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    same time.* * * § One fonn of the disease is extremely liable to produce the other in a second person; t and the two forms of disease are mutn.ally capable of exciting each other. ^ Many circumstances connected with the coincident appearances and causes, the circumstances under wliich it is most rife, its mode of propagation, its accompanying local and constitutional plienomena, the prevalence of the two diseases at the same time, induce a strong suspicion of a close alliance between hospital gangrene, malignant pustule, and erysipelas.§ 2. Diffuse Inflammation of the Mucous Membranes. Numerous writers refer to the close affinity between erysipelas and diffuse inflammation of the mucous membranes. |[ There is strong evidence in favour of the opinion that emanations from those with erysipelas will produce diffuse inflammation of these membranes; and I have met with several cases in which a direct extension of the diffuse inflammation had manifested itself from the fauces to the external skin by the anterior nares and lachrymal passages, and vice versa; and the extension of the diffuse inflammation down the throat, has been observed to appear around the wound of tracheotomy in the form of erysipelas. A diffuse inflammatory state of the fauces has been mentioned as a precursor of erysipelas; ^ and this is so frequently the case that it was observed in nearly 60 per cent, of the eases of idiopathic erysipelas of the face of which .1 have taken notes, and is therefore included in the definition of the term ; it was sometimes observed in idiopathic, and occasionally, but much more rarely, in traumatic erysipelas of the extremities. How is this more frequent occurrence in idiopatlilc than in traumatic erysipelas to be accounted for; is it that the miasm in being inhaled into the lungs makes a direct impression on the throat, * Duncan: Transactions of the Edinhurgh Medico-Chirurgical Society; vol. i, p. 586. Butter. Douglas: Dublin Hospital Reports; vol. ill. t London Medical and Physical Journal; vol. i, p. 177. Edinburgh Medical and Chirurgical Transactions ; vol. ill, p. 96. § South: Chelius; p. 70. Rolls: A Short Account of a Morbid Poison acting upon Sores; Lawrence. Lancet; 1825-6, p. 127. Rankin; vol. iv, p. 323. II Hippocrates notices the connexion between erysipelas and sore throat. As do also Aret®us: Opera Omnia; edit. KUhn; p. 13. Coelius Aurelianus: De Morbis Aculis et Chronicis; lib. iii, cap. ii. Stevenson: Edinburgh Medical and Chirurgical Transactions; vol. ii, p. 128. Gibson: ibid ; vol. iii, p. 94. Fordyce: Elements of the Practice of Physic; p. 311. Copkand: Medical Dictionary; p, 814. Arnott: Medical and Surgical Physical Journal; vol. Ivii, p. 193. Travers on Constitutional Irritation; vol. ii, p. 61. IMcDowel: Dublin Journal; 1834. A. Thompson. Tweedie: Cyclopcedia (f Practical Medicine; vol. li, p. 108. Alison: Library gf Practical Mcdicitic ; vol. i, p. 88. Baillie: Transactions of a Society for promoting Medico-Chirurgical Knotclcdgc. Farre : Medico-Chirurgical lYansactions; vol. iii, p. 86. Hawkins: London Medical and Physical Journal; vol. xli.\, p. 275. Gull: Medical Gazelle; June, 1849. Hyland: Treatise on Diseases of the Larynx, IfC. Watson : Oy). c/t.; vol. ii, p. 827- Nunneley : Op. ei7.,- p. 115. ^ Forrestus: Opera Ixv ; Obs. xx. Latour. Arnott. Stevenson. Gibson : Op. supra cit.