Etiology of erysipelas : Its relation to the nasal cavities and its destructive effects upon the eye.

  • Holmes, Christian R. (Christian Rasmus), 1857-1920.
Date:
[1907]
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    S LIBRARIES tt HEALTH tilBRAltr ETIOLOGY OF ERYSIPELAS. its rei.ation to the nasal cavities and its destructive e]ffects upon the eye. By C. R. Holmes, M. D., Cincinnati, O. Erysipelas is treated of systematically in works on General Medicine, General Surgery and Dermatology. It is an im- portant and serious disease and merits the attention which these authors give it. Although a germ disease it still prevails extensively in this latter era of asepsis and antisepsis, invad- ing the best equipped and best managed hospitals, and the cleanest and most elegant private houses, and even occurs spontaneously and without apparent cause in absolutely new hospitals. If you will read the paragraphs that treat of the etiology of this disease in the works that I have referred to, you will see that there is some important thing in its causa- tion that is unexplained or that an assumption is made that is not borne out by the facts as they are available to us today. The word idiopathic—now almost obsolete in every depart-