causing deadly diseases such as pyemia an infection with a 92 percent fatality rate. Through the course of the war, physicians had to learn how to judge the severity of the wound, recognize the ...
Clean white pus was expected in a normal healing wound; four deadly secondary infections were recognized: hospital gangrene, erysipelas, pyemia (septicemia) and tetanus. In the winter of 1846 ...
Untreated complications leads to bacteremia, septicemia or pyemia. Chronic abscess may destroy nearby vital tissues. It can cause multiple abscess formation or metastatic abscess formation.