A treatise on diphtheria : its nature, pathology and homoeopathic treatment / by Wm. Tod Helmuth.

  • William Tod Helmuth
Date:
1862
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    Section IV. Concomitants and Sequelce. Before proceeding to mention the actual concom- itants of the disease of which we treat, it may be well to mention that diphtheritic deposits may take place on cutaneous surfaces^ wounds^ ulcers and abraded surfaces ; also upon the schneiderian mem- brane, and within the vulvae—a fact which certainly would disprove the position maintained by Sloan, that to the throat alone is the disease confined. Some instances are worth recording. Mr. Edwards, of Wolverhampton, saw two cases of Vaginal Diphtheria, both of which proved fatal from exhaustion. Mr. Cooper, of Cromer, had, in one instance, seen the pudenda of a little girl covered with exudation, unattended by Diphtheria of the throat. Dr. ^N^icholson, of Reddich, also reports a some- what similar case. The last-named physician, on the fifth day after an operation ioY fistula in ano^ observed diphtheritic exudation upon the wound; and, in another case, having operated upon the soft parts adjacent to dis- eased bones, pseudo membrane covered the wound, amputation was resorted to, but Diphtheria a]3peared upon the new wound, hemorrhage from the bowels supervened, and the patient died in fourteen days. Other cases of this kind are upon record, but further repetition is here unnecessary. Cutaneous Diphtheria is also not unfrequent. I have observed it in young children ; in two instances.