Cleveland Medical Journal

Author : P. Maxwell Foshay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484446075
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Cleveland Medical Journal, Vol. 1 written by P. Maxwell Foshay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cleveland Medical Journal, Vol. 1: January, 1902 From a clinical point of view the diagnosis of pyemia, in many cases becomes-impossible; but the pathologists still adhere to the distinction between septicemia and pyemia, and with perfect propriety. For the clinician the line of demarkation between septicemia and pyemia ceases to exist; it happens frequently that a case begins at septicemia and terminates in pyemia; our clinical evidences are not sufficient to differentiate between the one and the other [form in all cases; so that the suggestion offered by Leube to call the condition septicopyemia is one well worthy of discussion and consideration. It might be deemed proper to designate those cases as pyemia in which secondary pus deposits are produced as the result of metastasis or embolism, as Leube suggests, and as septicemia those in which this is not the case. The attempt has been made to speak of a medical, a surgical, and an obstetric septicemia; it is needless to say that such a dis tinction would be, at the least, unreasonable, for septicemia is always septicemia, whatever its origin, whether from an external or an internal entrance of lower forms of life. Those cases, how ever, in which the infection takes place from within the body are those that come to the physician, and because of the mode of infection frequently present a more or less peculiar clinical picture, in like manner as surgical or obstetric scarlatina, as a rule, differs from scarlatina acquired through infection by the throat. It is this peculiar clinical picture that has appealed to Leube and others, and evidently must appeal to everyone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.