196 Mr. G. Gulliver's Researches on Suppuration. Sect. I. 



Case 4. In a woman who died of puerperal peritonitis, the 

 peritoneum contained a large quantity of coagulated lymph, 

 serum, and purulent matter. 



Pus was detected in the blood obtained from the right ven- 

 tricle of the heart. 



Case 5. James Green, set. 27. was admitted into hospital 

 with an ulcer of the leg. Seven days afterwards, the limb be- 

 gan to swell, and there was hardness in the femoral vein, with 

 some redness in the course of the absorbents on the inner side 

 of the thigh. The swelling of the limb increased gradually ; 

 he had first pain in the head, thirst, and quick pulse ; then 

 purging, pain in one wrist, with restlessness, incoherency of 

 speech, and offensive breath ; finally, low muttering delirium, 

 accelerated respiration, and coma preceded his death, which 

 took place on the twelfth day after his admission into hos- 

 pital. 



At the post-mortem examination, the large veins of the 

 limb were found to be occluded throughout by firm clots of 

 blood, mixed with pus and coagulated lymph, and the lining 

 membrane of the femoral vein was in many places of a red co- 

 lour, and coated with fibrine. In the iliac vein no such signs 

 of inflammation appeared, although there was a large coagulum 

 of blood, which had lost its red colour, containing in its centre 

 a small quantity of matter resembling pus. Several purulent 

 deposits presented in the sheath of the femoral vessels, and in 

 the intermuscular cellular substance. 



The matter resembling pus in the clot of the iliac vein had 

 neither the chemical nor microscopical characters of that fluid. 



In some blood obtained for examination from the right ven- 

 tricle and from the vena cava, numerous globules of pus were 

 found. 



Case 6. James Hawke, set. 22, had a superficial wound of 

 the tibia, followed quickly by considerable pain and swelling. 

 There was a very scanty deposit of pus in the subcutaneous 

 cellular tissue. The swelling of the limb increased and ex- 

 tended rapidly, the integuments becoming discoloured, and the 

 slight suppuration ceasing. His dissolution was preceded by 

 subsultus, collapsed face, accelerated breathing, hiccough, and 

 coma. 



The swelling of the limb was found to be produced by ef- 

 fusion of fibrine and sanguinolent serum. A few pus-glo- 

 bules were found in the blood obtained from the vena cava. 



Case 7. M. Jackson, ast. 42, had erysipelas of the face, 

 which decreased, and was succeeded by jaundice and effusion 



