SUPPURATION IN THE APPENDIX VERMI-FORMIS.

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...

The Treatment of Pulmonary Suppuration*

The conditions we will consider include suppurative pneumonitis, lung abscess and gangrene, infected lung cysts and bronchiectasis. Spontaneous resolution of the first three conditions and complete amelioration of symptoms in the last two-even in the inevitable persistence of gross anatomical deformity-occurs frequently. Accordingly active surgical intervention is withheld until it becomes obvi...