Clinical Lecture ON PYO-SALPINX,

A diagnosis of pneumococcal peritonitis secondary to pyo-salpinx in a young healthy female by culturing peritoneal pus.

Pneumococcal intra-abdominal infections of female genital tract origin are rare. A 33-year-old woman with peritonitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 was reported. The patient did not have any of the known predisposing conditions for intra-abdominal pneumococcal infection. The clinical presentation included signs of multiorgan failure. Peritoneal toilette, bilateral salpingectomy and...

A Clinical Lecture on Tetanus

the cause being unknown, irritation of I,el^es from injury was thought to be the prime tac ox, but now, owing to more recent discovexxes, we have learnt that the real cause is the"druxn-s ic bacillus which produces a virulent toxin, an this acting on the nervous system causes ie various phenomena classed under the name o Tetanus. This bacillus is found in earth wlucn has been manured with stabl...

A Case of Pyo-Peritoneum

Clinical Lecture on Contusion of the Hip

Pagkt, F. R. S.?The first case was that of a man who fell, about a month ago, on his great trochanter, receiving no other injury than a severe bruise. Mr. Paget insisted on the importance of treating such cases by prolonged rest in bed, as the best means known for averting the acute atrophy of the head and neck of the femur, which too often follows an injury apparently so trivial. After mention...

Reaction of Pyo compounds with sodium hypoiodite.

It was noted early in the investigations of the Pyo compounds that treatment of Pyo I1 with an alkaline iodine solution resulted in the formation of a product which was markedly more active against Staphy1ococcu.s aureus than was the original substance. In t.hese cases, the activity of the product was about 10 times that of the starting material (1). Since it was known that this reagent has the...