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into the pleura. He became listless and low, with accelerated 

 respiration, and died six days after the appearance of the ery- 

 sipelas. 



An ounce of turbid serum, with a little purulent matter, was 

 found in the right pleura, and eight ounces of sanguinolent 

 serum in the left. 



Some blood was obtained for examination from the larger 

 veins, and found to be greatly contaminated with pus. 



Case 8. Sergeant Dunn, aet. 29, had profuse suppuration 

 between the muscles and beneath the integuments of the thigh; 

 he died, after some weeks' suffering, exhausted by hectic. 



The purulent matter was extremely offensive, putrefying 

 with great rapidity, and sometimes coagulating spontaneously, 

 when set aside for a short time. It was poor in true pus-glo- 

 bules, but contained a large quantity of flaky fibrinous matter, 

 to which its opacity was chiefly owing. Many pus-globules 

 were found in the blood obtained from the right ventricle. 



Case 9. Wm. MacLean, aet. 1 9, died of pulmonary con- 

 sumption. In his lungs were several vomicae, containing pus 

 and softened tubercular matter. 



In the blood obtained from the vena cava and right ven- 

 tricle, many pus-globules were found. 



Case 10. A man had irritative fever, in the Marylebone 

 Infirmary, consequent on a large abscess behind the trochanter 

 femoris. 



An ounce of blood was drawn by cupping from the neigh- 

 bouring sound parts, and some pus was detected in this blood. 



Case 11. An officer's charger died with vomicae and tuber- 

 cles in the lungs, and sero-purulent fluid in one pleura. Some 

 time before his death his respiration and circulation were 

 much accelerated. 



The vomicae contained pus mixed with gangrenous sanies. 



In the blood obtained from the vena cava inferior pus was 

 detected. 



The preceding instances by no means comprehend the 

 whole number in which I have found pus in the blood. In 

 the detail I have rather been anxious to give examples of in- 

 teresting varieties, than to increase the number by needless 

 repetitions. 



It is satisfactory to add, that the observations of Dr. Davy 

 tend to confirm the accuracy of those which I have just rela- 

 ted. He detected pus in the blood of consumptive patients, 

 after my general results had been subjmitted to him, but be- 



