Certain irritating foreign bodies, such as soft rubber, may produce gangrenous bronchitis and multiple abscesses.
The end of our case is then either a gangrenous pneumonia or complications induced by a condition of widespread pyæmia.
The horn of the wall must be removed, and the diseased structures, whether gangrenous keratogenous membrane, necrosed ligament, or carious bone, carefully excised or curetted.
Inflammatory gangrene, or as it is more properly called gangrenous cellulitis, is a rapidly spreading infective process which destroys tissue as it advances.
In this variety, however, it is important to allow sufficient time to elapse in order that the depth of the gangrenous process may be ascertained.
It was at its worst in 1757, and was marked by the remarkable tremors described by Johnstone at Kidderminster, as well as by miliary eruptions and by a gangrenous tendency at the spots where blisters had been applied.
The anatomical examination of those who died showed the bronchitic affection, in one case pleurisy, and in some a gangrenous condition of the lungs.
It coincided with the great outburst of putrid or gangrenous sore-throat, to be described elsewhere; and it included an extensive prevalence of fevers which were also called putrid or nervous, and sometimes called miliary.
Not a few had gangrenous sloughs in the mouth, which formed quickly.
Francis Penrose, A Dissertation on the Inflammatory, Gangrenous and Putrid Sore-Throat.
Death is generally preceded by the "black scour," which is only an aggravation of the purging, the stools being mixed with shreds of dark gangrenous matter from the decomposed interior of the intestines.
The whole body, more particularly the abdomen, gives out a fetid gangrenous odour, which has procured for braxy the pastoral appellation of "stinking ill" and renders the dissection far from pleasant.
The same treatment is also adopted in the gangrenous forms of the disease, to which doses of opium and calomel are also commonly added.
This disease has also been termed calf diphtheria, gangrenous stomatitis, ulcerative stomatitis, malignant stomatitis, tubercular stomatitis, and diphtheritic patches of the oral mucous membrane.
This gangrenous tissue, when present before death, can be removed without pain to the animal.
Abscesses of the liver, gangrenous processes of the lips and nose, and gangrenous affections of the hoof have all been caused in sheep by this organism.
These gangrenous cases are probably always the result of infection and sometimes run a very rapidly fatal course.
In the most intense cases, within from twenty-four to forty-eight hours bloody serum may exude through the skin over the swollen parts, and finally large gangrenous sloughs may form.
Upon post-mortem examinations these stones will be discovered mostly in the large bowels; the intestines will be inflamed or gangrenous about the point of obstruction.
A probe shows these fistulous tracts to be more or less sinuous, but always leading to one point--the gangrenous cartilage.
On section we find the capillaries dilated, the connective tissue filled with a coagulable or coagulated lymph, and frequently we may discover gangrenousspots beneath the skin or involving the skin.
In some cases the throat becomes gangrenous and the disease ends in death.
The paralyzed limb becomes cold and dry, due to the suspension of proper circulation; the joints may swell and become edematous; vesicular eruptions appear on the skin; and frequently gangrenous sloughs form on the paralyzed parts.
It is often due to embolism of infective material, gangrenous matter, etc.
There are frequently the lesions of asphyxia; externally we find ulcers, abscesses, and gangrenous spots and the deep ulcers resulting from the latter.
This operation permits of a thorough inspection of the diseased parts, the easy removal of all gangrenous tissue, and a better application of the necessary remedies and dressings.
After a few days the gangrenous portion of the cushion will slough off from the effects of the poultice; under rare circumstances only should the dead parts be removed by surgical interference.
Gangrenous areas may occur as a result of shutting off their blood supply.
In the cases that do not terminate so happily the lung may become gangrenous (or mortified), an abscess may form, or the disease may be merged into the chronic variety.
The tissue surrounding the moist gangrenous patch is usually inflamed, swollen, and hot, but this is less noticeable in the case of dry gangrene.
Large portions of the skin may become gangrenous and slough.
Gangrenous inflammation of the lung can be recognized by the odor of the expired air and the severity of the symptoms.
The dressing of wounds is quite a simple, straightforward business when the wounds are clean, but it is a very different story when there is gangrenous infection.
A stream of dark-green gangrenous liquid poured out of the wound at the first washing.
I have even heard surgeons affirm that a gangrenous wound which had been thoroughly cleansed by maggots, healed more rapidly than if it had been left to itself.
Gangrenous spots followed by rapid destruction of tissue appeared in some cases where there had been no known wound.
The gangrenous mass was without true pus, and consisted chiefly of broken-down, disorganized structures.
Millions of flies swarmed over everything, and covered the faces of the sleeping patients, and crawled down their open mouths, and deposited their maggots in the gangrenous wounds of the living, and in the mouths of the dead.
In such a filthy and crowded hospital as that of the Confederate States Military Prison at Andersonville, it was impossible to isolate the wounded from the sources of actual contact of the gangrenous matter.
The reaction of the gangrenousmatter in certain stages was alkaline.
Baker to Tissot of Lausanne, who replied that they corresponded to typical gangrenous ergotism.
The spontaneous separation of a gangrenous hand or foot was on the whole a good sign for the recovery of the patient.
An erroneous statement as to an epidemic of gangrenous ergotism, or of Kriebelkrankheit, in England in 1676, has somehow come to be current in German books.
According to Haeser, it was not until the French essay of Read (Strasbourg, 1771) that the identity of the old ignis with the modern gangrenous ergotism was pointed out.
This then demands an immediate operation which if performed will show a gangrenous appendix that had ruptured!
He went on and described the terrible condition of men--dying from scurvy, diarrhea, gangrenous sores, and lice.
Millions of flies swarmed over everything and covered the faces of the sleeping patients, and crawled down their open mouths and deposited their maggots in the gangrenous wounds of the living and in the mouths of the dead.
A large gangrenous spot was observed in the skin of the calf of the right leg.
Instead of healing, the broken vessels became blackish and healed slowly, leaving ulcers, granulations, and scars, and the gangrenous tendency of the skin increased.
In a letter to one of his medical friends Roscius says that he succeeded in cutting off part of a protruding, livid, and gangrenous lung, after a penetrating wound of the chest, with a successful result.
At the age of sixty-six he was confined to bed by subacute bronchitis, and during this period his whole penis became gangrenous and sloughed off.
Schutz speaks of regeneration of the penis after gangrenous destruction.
In his dissertation on "Ruptures" Arnaud remarks that he cut away more than seven feet of gangrenous bowel, his patient surviving.
Cloquet mentions that at an autopsy of a woman who had a pewter goblet in her vagina, lead oxid was found in thegangrenous debris.
The frozen ears and cheeks healed in due time, and the gangrenous parts of the nose separated and soon healed, with the loss of the tip and parts of the alae, leaving the septum somewhat exposed.
When seen the man was intoxicated, and there was a gangrenous patch four by six inches on his buttocks.
In his "Surgery" Gooch says that at the battle of Dettingen one of Sir Robert Rich's Dragoons was left all night on the field, weltering in his blood, his spleen hanging out of his body in a gangrenous state.
The young girl is then left for a month, and when the bandage is removed the foot is often found gangrenous and ulcerated, one or two toes not infrequently being lost.
But this objection cannot be applied in cases where, the belly being cut open, the prolapsed omentum is removed with shears, since it may be both gangrenous and unable to be removed in any other way with safety.
And Paul says that in amputating a gangrenous limb the flesh ought to be retracted with a band lest it be torn by the saw.
This is a sure sign of extensive disease, the sinus wall often being gangrenousand the bone surrounding it necrosed and discoloured.
In cases where the uterus is removed for septic conditions, such, for example, as an infected or gangrenous fibroid, or when cancer of the corporeal endometrium and a submucous fibroid coexist, I modify the last stages of the operation.
After a few days the polypus became gangrenous from want of blood-supply, and separated from its deep attachments.
A gangrenous opening effected itself in the dorsal surface, which relieved him somewhat.
The case already mentioned as an example of spontaneous and natural circumcision belongs to the gangrenous results following phimosis, ending with the loss of the prepuce.
The gangrenous action may, in proportion to the low condition of the patient, be as proportionately rapid.
Philon mentions particularly the immunity that the operation conferred against a species of affection which Michel Levy asserts to have been a gangrenous disease.
Cameron found his gorge rise at the sight of the gangrenous ankle.
The doctor was determined to have thegangrenous foot off.
There are two forms of chronic poisoning by ergot--one a spasmodic form, the other the gangrenous form.
With regard to the effects produced by feeding animals with ergotised grain, experiments made during the last century have proved that it produces a gangrenous disease, e.
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