out. It has been my experience that the preventive treatment recommended involves prolonged rest in bed, leeches, evaporating lotions, counter-irritation, fomentations, etc., and frequently, notwithstanding a loug trial, the case ends in suppuration requiring incision, and a long time spent in stuffing the cavity. Personal experience points out the great benefit derived from an early incision, ...

In 28 adult severe periodontitis patients who did not respond to conventional periodontal therapy, full mouth clinical parameters including probing pocket depth, relative attachment level, bleeding on probing and suppuration after probing, visible plaque index and modified gingival index were recorded at the baseline and 14 months after treatment. Based on clinical and bacteriological diagnosis...

Aim of the study: This RCT assesses patients’ 18-month clinical outcomes after regenerative therapy periimplantitis lesions using either an electrolytic method (EC) to remove biofilms or a combination powder spray and (PEC). Materials Methods: Twenty-four patients (24 implants) suffering from were randomly treated by EC PEC followed augmentation submerged healing. Probing pocket depth (PPD), Bl...

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...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the outcome of wounds closed with irradiated polyglactin 910 (IRPG) Vicryl Rapide (Ethicon, Somerville, N.J.). METHOD Seventy-one patients with 80 oral wounds and 42 patients with 42 scalp wounds closed with IRPG were evaluated on the day of surgery, then one, seven, 14, 28 and 90 days following surgery. The incidence of inflammation, suppuration and hypertroph...

salmonella is a gram-negative, non-spore forming facultative anaerobic, motile bacilli. in developing countries, non-typhoidal salmonella (nts) accounts for the steadily increase in the proportion of human infections in recent decades. the clinical presentations of non-typhoidal salmonella infection are protean, including gastroenteritis (the most common one), bacteremia, septic arthritis, oste...

"VY. H. C., set. 26, of the Indian Marine, sent for me on 6th September last to treat his leg. He had recently returned from Sind after a stay there of three years. He exposed a large unhealthy looking sore, about two inches in length and one and a half in breadth, a little below the right knee cap on the tibia. He was in excellent condition : no history of syphilis. He also showed me a large, ...

MUMPS in the aged is a rarity, and so is parotid suppuration in this condition at any time. The two patients about to be described were old women occupying beds which faced each other at the end of a long ward. One case became evident six days after the other. They were nursed in the same ward behind screens, and there were no other cases among the other occupants of the room, all of whom were ...