The Pathology and Treatment of Furunculosis
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Pathology.?An essential characteristic of the whole furuncular process is excessive local action, coupled with deficiency of vital power. The earliest premonition of the condition is the appearance of a papule, which is found to occupy the site of a hairfollicle, the hair in many cases being observed protruding through the papule. This papule is soon surrounded by an area of tissue, into which has been effused a more or less large amount of " coagulable lymph," which raises the papule and its adjacent skin above the general surface. Then the papule vesiculates, and, pari passu with this, the effusion extends more and more into the surrounding connective tissue, and the vicinity of the papule speedily assumes a faint pinkish hue, which gradually darkens to a deep red, and finally to a dark purple colour. The effusion of lymph is either sufficiently rapid to strangulate the blood-supply of the inflamed centre, or the organisms (which have been introduced via the hairfollicle or from the blood-stream) are sufficiently powerful to kill
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