Mercurial Ointment in Erysipelas.

Erysipelas in Infants *

Under I mo. I to 2 mos. Observer Cases Died %o Cases Died %o Culotta ........... 10 8 80 10 4 40 Rosario2 ........... 16 15 94 unstated 57 Tarnier8 ........... 38 36 94 Schaffer and Rothman4 a. transfused 1...... 1 100 * b. not transf. 10 8 80 * Holt and McIntosh5 ........ 20 16 80 * Trousseau .......... unstated 100 Cooke7 ........... 17 13 76 23 17 74 Robertson8 a. transfused ...... 6 3 50 * ...

Antistreptococcus Serum in Erysipelas

Erysipelas in Calcutta

were performed during the year under report. This give9 a total ol 162 operations. Of these, 96 recovered, 3 were discharged relieved, 5 unrelieved, 32 died and 26 remained under treatment. The result is a death-rate of 197 53 against the following numbers in the previous six years :?259 2, 170 61, 155-77, 207 08, 200 and 133-08. But of the above number of 162 cases, only 136 were treated to a ...

Local Immunity in Experimental Erysipelas

The experiments recorded show that the skin involved in the zone of inflammation produced by the endodermal injection of virulent living erysipelas streptococci into rabbits becomes, after the lesion has healed, partially but not completely resistant to subsequent infection with the homologous organism. In the majority of experiments the lesion resulting from the first endodermal injection spre...

Observations on Erysipelas Infantile

ble a disease in his hands ; viz. " Small doses of sulphate of magnesia with antimonial wine, and saline diaphoretics, usually carried off the disease, after the previous exhibition of one or two active purgatives with submuriate of mercury and scammony. A slight opiate at night was also serviceable." Indeed, I can candidly assert, that the disease abovementioned has caused me no small degree o...