Volume 1

The standard physician : a new and practical encyclopaedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household / edited by Sir James Crichton-Browne [and others].

Date:: 1908-1909

Credit: The standard physician : a new and practical encyclopaedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household / edited by Sir James Crichton-Browne [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Blood-Vessela Bone THE STANDARD ITIYSICEW 276 such as rattlesnake venom, tlie blood-cells are destian'ed. See Poisoning. It is of interest to note that ()li\’er W’endell Holmes was the lirst to teach the infections nature of ]merperal se))tiemia. BLOOD-VESSELS. See Introductory Chapters (jjj). 154-157). BLUES. See Insanity; Obsessions. BODY-LOUSE. -See lacE. BOIL.—T erm applied to a collection of pus under the skin, which ma\’ occur during the course of an acute or chronic inflammation of the skin or ulna). otiiei oigans. According to whether the jius is the result of an acute or a chronic ])rocess, so-called hot and cold abscesses are distinguished. The former are accompanied by redness of the skin, a feeling of heat in the affected ])art, a severe, pulsating pain, and, usually, fever. A cold abscess IS liee fiom these symptoms, or they are ])resent onlv in small degree. The supeitidal foims in the skin are termed boils; the deej^ier-seated ones, carbuncles. An abscess lesults from the effort of the body to combat a liacterial foe. If this does not succeed, either because the overlying skin is too thick or because some improper mode of treatment, such as massage, has been applied, particles of pus are absorbed by the body and distributed to various parts, resulting in a general blood-poisoning or pya:mia. It is therefore very$