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| 9 Chesterfield St. | |
| W. | |
| May 19/62 | |
| My dear Sir | |
| You entirely understood | |
| my meaning. | |
| Pyaemia1 is an | |
| indigenous disease in | |
| Paris, as it is elsewhere, | |
| altogether independently | |
| of Surgical conditions. | |
| This has been observed | |
| by one person at least | |
| through a period of | |
| 35 years. And now | |
| on enquiry it is found | |
| still to exist; and | |
| to a greater extent | |
1. Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary describes pyemia (pyaemia) as a "form of septicemia due to presence of pus-forming organisms in the blood, manifested by formation of multiple abscesses of a metastatic nature." Symptoms include "high intermittent temperature with recurrent chills; metastatic processes in various parts of the boy, especially in lungs; septic pneumonia, [and] empyema". Pyaemia may be fatal and is treated with antibiotics. Prophylactic measures include prevention of suppuration (the process of pus formation).
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