Suppuration in Bone

Intracranial Suppuration

Mastoid Suppuration without Tympanic Perforation and Suppuration

Inflammation , Suppuration , Putrefaction , Fermentation :

This paper focuses on Lister’s inaugural lecture at King’s College, London, in October 1877. As the new Professor of Clinical Surgery, Lister had much to report, including impressively high survival rates from complex operations previously regarded as foolhardy. Instead, he chose to address the processes of fermentation in wine, blood and milk. His reasons are not obvious to a modern audience, ...

Amebic pulmonary suppuration.

LEUROPULMONARY L E S I O N S NEXT TO P t h e liver are the most common extraintedinal manifestations of amebiasis. Since the original reports by Collin and Nixon' and Opie,' a good number of accounts based on clinical and necropsy data have appeared in the literature. In the majority of cases, pulmonary involvement is secondaxy to hepatic involvement. In approximately 75 per cent of the case$ t...

Chronic pulmonary suppuration.

The purpose of this paper is to focus attention on present antibiotic treatment of pulmonary suppurative disease, inasmuch as the current literature does not stress medical management. From the literature one receives the impression that in acute suppurative conditions of the lung surgical treatment is still the preferred method of management and that it should be instituted early. In fact, acu...