Essentials of diagnosis : Arranged in the form of questions and answers prepared especially for students of medicine / by Solomon Solis-Cohen and Augustus A. Eshner.

  • Solis-Cohen, Solomon, 1857-1948.
Date:
1892
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    local infection ; these cases are likely to be more than ordinarily dangerous. The disease may apparently result from eating the flesh or from drinking the milk of infected animals. Fig. 14. Anthrax bacilli in blood. (Vierordt At the site of inoculation, a pimple appears ; the skin in its neighborhood becomes red and infiltrated ; the papule becomes vesicular and pustular, with subsequent gangrene ; other vesi- cles or pustules form and also become gangrenous; there results a characteristic eschar, which presents the appearance of an elevated patch, consisting of a zone of low, whitish vesicles surrounding a depressed brownish, purplish, or black center, with an outer zone of red induration. Beyond this is usually a region of swelling and edema of variable extent. The spleen and the lymphatic glands in communication with the infected regions enlarge. There is often considerable local tenderness. The constitutional symptoms are those of septico- pyemia : malaise, headache, depression, fever. According to the mode of introduction of the poison, or the direction in which infection spreads, other manifestations appear. Some- times the gastro-intestinal tract appears to bear the brunt of the disease and there are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pains and diarrhea, the stools being bloody. Death may take place from exhaustion or from septicemia. At other times, thoracic symp- toms predominate. There are then dyspnea, a sense of oppression