Intubation is treacherous and unreliable except in diphtheritic cases; but in the diphtheriticcases it is ideal, if constant skilled watching can be had.
Diphtheritic membrane in the trachea may require removal with bronchoscope and forceps.
As a rule, when a convalescent diphtheritic patient cannot be extubated two weeks after three negative cultures have been obtained the advisability of a low tracheotomy should be considered.
The diphtheritic child who is strangling to death with a diphtheritic membrane in its throat is not permitted by the physician to be left to the benevolent being's will, nor to the prayers of the parents.
Cats and cows are susceptible to the diphtheritic bacillus, and fowls, turkeys and other birds have been known to suffer from a disease like diphtheria, but other domestic animals appear to be more or less resistant or immune.
Rooms appear liable to become infected by the presence of diphtheritic cases, and so spread the disease among other persons using them.
Finally, the counteracting effect of antitoxin in preventing the disintegrating action of the diphtheritic toxin on the nervous tissues has been demonstrated pathologically.
This rarely occurs at the present time, and diphtheritic wounds are seldom seen.
The most important of these organisms are streptococci, various forms of staphylococci and of pneumo-bacteria, and diphtheritic and pseudo-diphtheritic bacilli.
The chief forms of laryngitis to be considered in connection with the production of dyspnœa, are membranous or diphtheritic laryngitis and acute inflammatory œdema.
It is characterized by a catarrhal and diphtheritic inflammation of the mucous membranes of the head.
If the mouth is examined at this time, an accumulation of mucus and patches of diphtheritic or false membranes are found.
It has been met with in the placenta, diphtheritic membranes, blood-vessels, tubercles, and gummata.
A case of local diphtheritic deposit near the cardiac portions of the oesophagus, upon the seat of a stricture, I have described in my Treatise, p.
At others, the suppurative inflammation may be seen to have eroded the derma, which is covered with a diphtheritic membranous exudation similar to that covering the mucous membranes lining the mouth, nose, and ears.
To cauterize a diphtheritic membrane or infiltration I consider wrong, unless I shall be able to do so thoroughly and to limit the action of the caustic to the diseased surface.
Scarification or removal of part of the tonsils is followed in half a day or a day by a deposit of diphtheritic membrane on the wound.
Thus, the locality of the diphtheritic process determines to a great extent whether steam is indicated or not.
The diphtheritic exudation represents a local death, a necrosis, of the part concerned, and the result has frequently been compared with the death consequent upon the action of a caustic.
An almost normal temperature the day after the operation is an agreeable symptom, but does not exclude a downward extension of the diphtheritic process, and hence cannot be looked upon as assuring a favorable prognosis.
Hildige describes diphtheriticconjunctivitis as seen in Graefe's practice, and looks upon it as contagious.
It also occasionally presents the evidences of catarrhal or diphtheritic inflammation.
The wound became thoroughly diphtheritic and gangrenous, but the pharynx and respiratory organs remained intact.
The process in the throat and pharynx is comparable to the typhoid process in the ileum, which is often a truly diphtheritic process in the second half of the fever[1383].
Cases of the evacuation of desquamated patches of diphtheritic membrane from the intestinal mucosa 6 to 9 feet in length have been reported.
This disease has also been termed calf diphtheria, gangrenous stomatitis, ulcerative stomatitis, malignant stomatitis, tubercular stomatitis, and diphtheritic patches of the oral mucous membrane.
In hogs it has caused necrotic or diphtheritic processes in the mucous membrane of the mouth, necrosis of the anterior wall of the nasal septum, and pulmonary and intestinal necrosis, accompanying hog cholera.
Did the process cease at this point it would be properly called a diphtheritic inflammation, but it does not.
It is first catarrhal in character, but soon a false or diphtheritic membrane is formed, with the production of shallow ulcers.
Baumeister records two cases of diphtheritic vaginitis, the second case in a cow four weeks calved, contracted from the first in a newly calved cow.
This process is known as coagulation necrosis, and the resulting fibroid mass, containing in its meshes the necrosed and degenerated epithelium and leucocytes, constitutes the diphtheritic or false membrane.
Among horses it is the agent in the production of necrotic malanders, quittor, and diphtheritic inflammation of the large intestine.
The so-called diphtheritic inflammations of the vagina and uterus in cows are caused by the same organism that induces necrotic stomatitis.
The diphtheritic process may spread from the pharynx to the nasal cavities, causing blocking of the nares, with a profuse ichorous discharge from the nostrils, and sometimes severe epistaxis.
If fresh serum is not available, anti-diphtheritic or anti-tetanic serum or trade preparations, such as hemoplastin, may be employed.
Hence, after the lapse of a suitable interval, he is again injected with diphtheritic poison, and for the second time his blood begins to generate the antitoxine.
According to Sollier, the accommodative paresis is like that in post-diphtheritic paralysis--a disease due to cerebral cortex intoxication.
In spite of this property, however, thediphtheritic poison may be taken into the stomach without any pernicious results.
For an exhaustive and wise study of the diphtheritic paralyses, see Dr.
It is to be borne in mind that post-diphtheritic paralysis, in the great majority of cases, affects only a very small group of muscles; of Dr.
It is called "false" croup, because "true" croup is always diphtheritic and is a very serious disease.
The difficulty here again is that if we wait till the diphtheritic membrane covers the whole throat, antitoxin will not be of much use.
Yet to-day we have people who do not believe in vaccination or in anti-diphtheritic serum.
Last winter I causticked all the diphtheritic throats in the place with my own hand.
But she dared not go backward and forward between her baby and the diphtheritic children.
Besides the mucus, pus, and blood, the dysenteric stools contain the sloughs which have been torn off by violent peristalsis in cases of the diphtheritic form.
He recognized sporadic and epidemic attacks of the disease, and described under the terms fiens and facta forms which coarsely correspond to the catarrhal and diphtheritic varieties of modern pathologists.
Catarrhal enteritis, and particularly diphtheritic colitis, are not infrequent complications, especially in the later stages of the disease.
When the latter are ulcerating or are concealed by diphtheritic membrane, and are situated on the tongue, they may be mistaken for either simple or parasitic stomatitis.
The pseudo-membranous or diphtheritic process is now developed, and may vary in intensity from a mere frosting of the surface to dense infiltration of the entire thickness.
So most cases of sporadic dysentery show only catarrhal lesions, while most cases of epidemic dysentery show diphtheritic lesions.
Perforation is very rare in cases of follicular ulceration, and is by no means frequent in the diphtheritic process, but it is the most frequent cause of peritonitis in chronic dysentery.
A slight lesion of any mucous membrane constitutes what is known as a catarrhal process; a more grave affection, a diphtheritic process; a more chronic inflammation, a hypertrophic or hyperplastic process.
The anti-diphtheritic serum is now kept in readiness at all our missions in Alaska, and the disease seems to have ceased its depredations; but it has taken terrible toll of the native people.
Later came the memorable attack of diphtheritic sore throat, that made them all so kind.
You've only got a weak chest, but I've got a diphtheritic throat!
It is often a post-diphtheritic condition, appearing alone or associated with other paresis.
In many cases the mucous membrane appeared to be superficially necrosed, and covered with diphtheritic patches.
But she dared not go backwards and forwards between her baby and the diphtheritic children.
Send package 1,500 unitsDiphtheritic Serum marked with my name to station.
The assistant opened it and read as follows: Send 1,500 unitsDiphtheritic Serum to me by morning train.
Eight decimal one--call it eight of diphtheritic effluvium, traces of scarlet-fever germs, and of trichinus spiralis.
There has been a change for the worse, very sudden and rapid, and when the Doctor got here he found diphtheritic symptoms.
It was true the boy had developed diphtheritic symptoms, but he was quiet for the present and his mother earnestly watching him.
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