A practical treatise on injuries of the head / Edward Bewley.

  • Bewley, Edward
Date:
1831
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    If it be recent, the edges are swollen and dry, not secreting any fluid, and the dressings adhere to the wound. If pus has been already secreted, it changes to a yellowish, thin sanies, often foetid. The tension of the integuments is sometimes con- siderable, sometimes not so much marked. Oc- casionally, the disease terminates m desquama- tion; but, if om- endeavours to procure resolu- tion have failed, collections of matter Reformed which are discharged by openings behind the Ls, or in the upper eye-lids; or death itself may The swelling in erysipelas is flat,--not pointed, as in phlegmon : it is diffused, and has not the hardness of phlegmon. In ^^Y^]^^^^'^ pain \.burmng; in phlegmon, ^'^^^ J^^ colour of the former is from a uniform light red to a brighter coloui, often, after a few days, mixed -th a y^^?^^ tinffe. The pMegmonous redness is diltused, not unfform, but deep -d livid at the centre^^^^^^^^^^ and shaded off at the circumference. Eiysipe as has a stroni^ disposition to spread by continuity, and is, at all periods of the disease erratic ; not so with phlegmon, ^vhich is, from the commence- ent, Hmited and stationary If ^1^^ -T-P^- tons inflammation is to end favourably, it does, not spread so quickly as wlien it is likely to ter- minate in suppuration. Phlegmon is said to be- rL/% inflammation; erysipelas, unhealthy : ?he fever in the former is of the sthemc ; m the. atte of the asthenic type. The tenninations^^^^^ the one are generally favourable; those of the other are frequently the reverse. 45 The fever, in erysipelas, generally pro-- ceeds /arT;,a..z. with the local disease, and botb /et better m- worse together. ^^^'^^ ^^Zn^ the disease, the tongue becomes,of,a mahogany)