This is most often seen in puerperal women, and is known as phlegmasia alba dolens.
Thrombosis of veins, as in phlegmasia alba dolens, occurs much more rarely than after typhoid fever.
Many of the above-named complications may occur also as sequelæ, and in addition to these we may have pyæmia, giving rise to purulent collections in the joints and phlegmasia alba dolens.
It is the blood of a phlegmasiarather than of a pyrexia.
This phlegmasia is distinguished from scarlet fever by its shorter duration and the absence of the efflorescence.
Legallois has expressed his conviction, that phlegmasia dolens, puerperal fever, and many other puerperal ailments, are solely dependent upon the absorption of pus from the uterine surface.
Sir Henry Halford[17] has also mentioned three cases of what he has termed phlegmasia dolens, occurring in the male, in one of which the iliac vein was found obliterated after death.
Dewees's chapter on Phlegmasia Dolens, in his "Treatise on the Diseases of Females," also the observations of Dr.
Phlegmasia alba dolens, or what was called before the dawn of modern pathological science, milk leg, is only another form or a complication of pelvic cellulitis.
Among these were hot fomentations, large repeated doses of morphine, and liniments of everything that is usually prescribed to relieve pain; for the pain in phlegmasia is sometimes excruciating.
One time it was supposed that this affection is only possible after confinement, but this is an error, because phlegmasia alba may develop at any time from purulent infection, originating from any cause.
When it occurs there are the same symptoms of phlegmasia alba dolens in the upper extremity as have been mentioned for the lower.
Arrest the local phlegmasia and secure freedom of abdominal circulation, and we at once get the action of the specific remedy.
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