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...body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...
...were a case of typhoid fever. And, as with typhoid fever, health officers must track down the men & women disseminating gonorrhea and syphilis through a community, to see that those original sources of infection get cured. That procedure requires public laboratories where blood tests can be made and pus smears examined. Because great numbers of infected individuals lack enough intelligence or money to get examined, and then treated, health officers wish to make laboratory examinations and treatment free...
Surgeon Erdmann got down to Dr. Brooks's liver. At that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted out. In his intensity Surgeon Erdmann cut his own finger twice. Then he and his surgical team of professors speedily cleaned up Dr. Brooks's abscess, inserted a rubber drain, closed the incision...
Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...
...damage suits poured in, Cushman's Sons, despite a clean bill of health from sanitary inspectors, abandoned making cream puffs and eclairs until Federal food inspectors could say how and where pus germs got into the egg yolks...