TBAUMATIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2L 



scar, wliicli at first is made up of connective tissue, may be^ 

 changed in time into hyaline cartilage. 



TRAUMATIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 



What are traumatic infectious diseases ? 



They comprise a number of accidental wound diseases,, 

 due to the entrance of bacteria or their products (toxines) into, 

 •the wound. 



Name the most important traumatic infectious diseases ? 



(1) Traumatic fever, (3) septicaemia, (3) pyaemia, (4) sup- 

 puration of the wound, (5) cellulitis. 



In a wider sense of the word, what other diseases belong to the 

 traumatic infectious disease 9 

 Tuberculosis, anthrax, glanders, malignant CBdema„ 

 actinomycosis, botryomycosis, etc. 



SUPPURATION OP THE "WOUND. 



Name the cause of wound suppuration ? 



Suppuration is the result of an inflammation caused by 

 the infection of the wound by pus cocci. 

 Name the most important pus producing bacteria ? 



The most common pus coccus is the staphylococcns-- 

 pyogenes aureus, most frequently met with in circumscribed 

 localized processes. Experiments show that subcutaneous- 

 injections of this germ usually cause an abscess; intravenous, 

 injection produces pyaemia and ulcerating endocarditis; intra- 

 peritoneal injections cause a fatal suppuration ; 3, the less. 



