Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... cases where the course of the disease is more favorable. Ordinarily leucocytosis is established within one-half to two hours after the initial decrease. Inflammatory leucocytosis has been observed in strangles, infection with pyogenic organisms, fistulous withers, wound infections, abscesses, quittor, suppurations, pneumonia (croupous, pleuro, gangrenous and broncho), pleuritis, muscular rheumatism, tetanus. In man it occurs in a large number of diseases some of which are: Asiatic cholera, relapsing fever, typhus fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria, tertiary syphilis, erysipelas, bubonic plague, dysentery, pneumonia, smallpox (suppurative stage) and vaccina, malignant endocarditis, multiple abscesses, pyemic and septicemic Table XXII.--Examples Op Inflammatory Leucocytosis The letters following the animal refer to the investigator reporting the case;--B for Buffington, M for Meier, MHC for Moore, Haring and Cady. conditions, actinomycosis, glanders, acute articular rheumatism, gonorrhoea, cerebro-spinal meningitis, osteomyelitis, whooping cough, abscesses, inflammation of serous membranes, gangrenous inflammation. Experimental leucocytosis. Besides jiatural infections, leucocytosis may be induced by many influences. A large number of chemical substances and mixtures, organic principles, bacterial proteins or their products and bacterial cultures have been found to produce a greater or less grade of leucocytosis. Only a few of the great number of investigations can be cited. Pohl found that the aromatic extracts and oils (oil of anise, peppermint, fennel), vegetable bitters (absinthe, extract of gentian), certain alkaloids (piperin, strychnine and others) caused in fasting dogs a distinct increase in the number of leucocytes (40-120%) which...
