Author: American Medical Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780266490791

Excerpt from American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1911, Vol. 2 In using the term sepsis in scarlet fever I desire to be understood as referring to a set of clinical symptoms occurring forty-eight hours or longer after the onset of the disease, which are apparently due to the invasion of the body by organisms of the streptococcus group, which, up to the present time, are not known to possess any cultural or other characteristics which serve to distinguish them from streptococci isolated from a number Of other morbid conditions. The symptoms may be briefly stated as follows: NO fall Of temperature, or a renewed rise; abnormal swelling of the mucous membrane Of the throat, with or without superficial sloughing; profuse nasal discharge; marked cervical adenitis; rapid, Often irregular pulse; mental apathy; active or low delirium. Streptococci may or may not be found in the blood, and it should be said that while they are usually present in prolonged cases especially, they are not necessarily so, even in those which must be clinically regarded as septic and, on the other hand, may be found at an early stage in cases whose course is otherwise benign and which do not admit Of other than a technical diagnosis of this condition. 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.