A CASE OF PHLEGMONOUS ERYSIPELAS (IN SPANISH)

A CASE OF PHLEGMONOUS ERYSIPELAS (IN SPANISH)

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To commemorate the 120 years of its writing, the text that appeared in 1898 in the number 25 of the Revista Gaceta Medica, the first scientific publication that had the city of Cartagena, Colombia, is reproduced.It presents in detail the clinical evolution of an infectious process in the hand of a woman after a wound in the thumb.The text allows To observe that the liquid phenol was used and the concepts about it already existed.Three decades before, Joseph moondrop quarks Lister had demonstrated the advantages of the use of phenol to disinfect set of instruments, to wash wounds and incisions and was indicating that it was allowing to decrease the mortality for infections.It is observed by the depth of the comments and the analysis of the evolution of the injury, that the author of the text had appropriated suitably of himself knowledges of very recently indication and he identified aspects relating with the streptococcus.

The author of the text treated his patient when worldwide scarcely initiated the ethical nutrients mega magnesium powder citrus 450g bacteriological age, still several years were absent for the antimicrobial one and many decades for the advent of the antibiotics.Rev.Cienc.Biomed.2014;5(1):171-179 KEYWORDS History of Medicine, Bacterial Infections, Erysipelas; Abscess.