"Abscess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... itself that germs or other poisonous substances swallowed with the food may get into it, start a swelling or inflammation, get trapped in there by the closing of the narrow mouth of the tube, and form an abscess, which leaks through, or bursts into, the cavity of the body, called the peritoneum. This causes a very serious ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson
... 1824, he devised a new and ingenious mode of reducing metacarpo-phalangeal dislocation. In 1836 he removed the arm, scapula, and three quarters of the clavicle at a single operation, for the first time in the history of Surgery. He was the first to open abscess of the hip-joint. He performed his operations, without ever having seen them performed, almost without exception. Dr. Crosby was not what may be called a rapid operator. 'An operation, gentlemen,' he ...
— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith
... The pain is sometimes severe, shooting down the arm and interfering with sleep, and it may be associated with tenderness on pressure over the upper end of the humerus. In cases with carious destruction of the articular surfaces there are starting pains, and the arm is shortened. If a cold abscess forms in the bursa underneath the deltoid, the pus may burrow and appear at the anterior or posterior boundary of the axilla or in the axillary space. Pus formed in the joint tends to gravitate along the inter-tubercular groove. The axillary glands ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles
... who was lying on a mattress and could not be seen, since he was unable to raise even a finger. But he was not suffering from phthisis. He was dying of inflammation of the liver, contracted in Senegal. Very long and lank, he had a yellow face, with skin as dry and lifeless as parchment. The abscess which had formed in his liver had ended by breaking out externally, and amidst the continuous shivering of fever, vomiting, and delirium, suppuration was exhausting him. His eyes alone were still alive, eyes full of unextinguishable love, whose flame ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... other instances of such attraction. The leucocytes as free moving cells also come under the influence of such tropisms. When a small capillary tube having one end sealed is partially filled with the bacteria which produce abscess and placed beneath the skin it quickly becomes filled with leucocytes, these being attracted by the bacteria it contains. Dead cells exert a similar attraction for the large phagocytes. Such attraction is called chemotropism and is supposed ...
— Disease and Its Causes • William Thomas Councilman
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