Case of white fibro-serous discharge from the thigh / by A.B. Buchanan, M.D.

  • Buchanan, Andrew Bogle.
Date:
1863
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    ]8 v.ii'.t;; i ii;!t:)-?i:iu>'s di-ui; ai'.(;k of the schools J and whenever a woman suckling her infant had an abscess in any situation, there was a tendency to imagine that it might possibly contain milk. If, at the same time, the secretion from the mammse was suddenly suspended or diminished, a not unlikely result of inflammatory fever attending suppuration, little further doubt of metastasis remained. The diagnosis was, of course, firmly established if the purulent secretion chanced to be abundant, thin, and of long continuance. An extensive list of such dubious cases might be enumerated, taking place from wounds fistulous com- munications, with cold abscesses or deep-seated suppurating glands / from the surfaces of the peritoneum^ and pleura; from the uterus* and tunica vaginalis ;^ from the mu( ous membrane of the nose ;^ as & ptyalismus lacteus fiom the salivary glands / as an epiphora lactea from the eyes ;^ and ^ even, according to the statement of some writers, from the » whole surface of the body at once.^ I would merely direct the attention of those interested to by far the most remark- able of these cases, recorded by HoflPmann® as occurring from the pleural cavity, after puncturing the thorax for empyema. The case is much too long to cite; but it is not at all improbable that it was an illustration of a regular white serous discharge, emanating from some portion of the pleural surface. * Schurig, ' Parthenologia,' Dresden et Lips., 1729. * A Milky Discharge at a small Orifice in the Groin, by Mr. John Patch; 'Med, Essays and Observ., by a Society in Edinburgh,' vol. v, part i, p. 328, Ed., 1747. * Choniel, ' Memoire, Acad, des Sciences,' 1728 ^ Dolaeus, ' Ephem. Germ.,' decur. ii, ann. vi, obs. 76. ' 'Madras Quarterly Journal of Med. Science,' vol. i, p. 180. * Richter, ' Med. and Surg. Observations,' Translation, Ed., 1744. ^ Nuck, • Sialographia,' p. 50. * Rommel, ' Epiieni. Germ.,' decur. ii, ann. viii. ' Disquisitio circa affectum pectoris i rarissimum, perpetui succi nutritii e.\ thorace stillicidii; 'Frid. Hoffmanni Opera,' suppl. ii, pars ii, p. 434.