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A general disease, characterized by recurring chills and intermittent fever and the formation of abscesses in various parts, all of which result from the contamination of the blood by products arising from a focus contaminated by the
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bacteria by pus-forming organisms in the blood. Apart from the distinctive abscesses, pyaemia exhibits the same symptoms as other forms of septicaemia. It was almost universally fatal before the introduction of
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The disease is characterized by intermittent high temperature with recurrent chills; metastatic processes in various parts of the body, especially in the lungs; septic pneumonia;
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on February 13, 1941, at 5 p.m. of pyemia due to an infected bladder, gastrointestinal tract and perineum, plus kidney failure.
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Casper, a wounded soldier in "Nostalgia," by Dennis McFarland, is dying of pyemia after his lower arm is amputated.
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included a three-page discussion of pyaemia in his textbook
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Pyaemia of an origin that is hidden in the deeper tissues.
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features of systemic inflammatory response syndrome
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Index


sepsis
abscesses
metastatic
staphylococcus
antibiotics
William Osler
The Principles and Practice of Medicine
bacteria
suppuration
Ignaz Semmelweis
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American Civil War
emboli
thrombus
thrombi
portal vein
empyema
tachycardia
Prophylactic
Ignaz Semmelweis
nihilistic
Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
Miller Huggins
manager
New York Yankees
1929 season
Blind Boy Fuller
Durham, North Carolina

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