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The microscope often detects pus in the blood, during the 

 course of this disease. If, however, the quantity of pus is 

 only small, its detection may be attended with much diffi- 

 culty.^ As the presence of pus in the blood has also been 

 recognised in other pathological conditions, and many obser- 

 vations have recently been made upon the subject, I shall refer 

 to this point more particularly when I speak of the presence of 

 foreign substances in the blood. 



I have analysed the blood of two women suffering from me- 

 trophlebitis puerperahs. The analyses gave : 



The blood in analysis 15 was taken from a woman aged 

 20 years, who was attacked in our Ijdng-in institution with 

 violent phleljitis uterina the day after her delivery. The pulse 

 was fidl and hard, and 140 in the minute, previous to the bleed- 

 ing. The post-mortem examination revealed a high degree of 

 inflammation of the veins and of the uterus itself, with a co- 

 pious deposition of pus. 



In analysis 16, the blood was taken from a woman aged 20, 

 who was seized fourteen days previously to the bleeding with a 

 violent attack of phlebitis uterina, from which, however, she 

 recovered by the use of venesection and mercmy. Violent 

 fever afterwards came on, accompanied by pain in the region 

 of the uterus. The pulse was somewhat fidl and hard, and 

 132 in the minute. She died soon after, and the post-mortem 

 examination proved the accm-acy of the diagnosis. 



[In a case of plegmasia alba dolens, accompanied with fever, 

 occurring in a woman aged 21 years, six weeks after delivery, 



' According to Gendrin, when there is pus in the blood, the serum deposits a viscid 

 luinary-like sediment, or else is turbid and cloudy. 



