Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff.

  • Wolff, Abraham, 1819-1892.
Date:
1872
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    the head, there are invariably pain, tenderness, and swelling of the lymphatic glands of the neck.) After these symptoms have continued for a period varying from some hours to a few days, the local symptoms manifest themselves. A portion of skin, at first perhaps of limited extent—an eyelid or patch of skin of the cheek—becomes red, tense, shining, and swollen. The swelling and redness do not gradually merge into the healthy texture, but there is a defined limit; the redness disappears momen- tarily on pressure; the skin feels thickened and brawny. After some days bullae may appear on the affected part, filled with a straw-coloured serum. The swelling and redness rapidly extend, and if the head and face be the part affected, the deformity caused by the swelling is extreme; the eyes are closed by the enormously puffed up lids ; the nose, lips, and other features partake of the swelling. After some days, the pain, at first tingling, becomes burning and smarting. If the attack be severe,there is probably delirium. After three or four days the redness of the parts first affected becomes less vivid, whilst the disease is perhaps still spreading in other parts. The tumefaction gradually sub- sides, and generally after eight or ten days, in favourable cases, the disease terminates by a shrink- ing and subsequent desquamation of the skin. That severe form of the disease that is recognise by the term phlegmonous erysipelas usually follow