"Fistulous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stages succeed, until, finally, the result is frequently mortification or death. The entire bone, or only a part of it, may be affected; the parts become swollen, "matter" forms, and unless it be artificially evacuated, it will in time work its way out through a fistulous opening. As the disease progresses, the adjacent tissues become thickened and numerous openings are formed, which communicate with the bone, and often with each other, so that a probe may be passed from one to another, as represented in Fig. ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... the characteristic solid body of the fetus. If the latter is still alive and can be stimulated to move, the evidence is even more perfect. The fetus may die and be carried for years, its soft structures becoming absorbed so as to leave only the bones, or by pressure it may form a fistulous opening through the abdominal walls, or less frequently through the vagina or rectum. In the latter cases the best course is to favor the expulsion of the foal and to wash out the resulting cavity with a solution of carbolic acid 1 part ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... positively be a miracle if such a patient recovers without an operation. I have seen these cases linger for two, three, and even five years. The type of cases that lingers so long is one that has an imperfect drainage, either into the bowels or through a fistulous ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.
... from a wound, made, for example, in the removal of a tumour or in an operation on the ramus of the jaw, so long as it is aseptic; but as a sequel of suppuration in the gland, and particularly of an abscess developing around a concretion, it is not uncommon. The fistulous opening is usually small, and may occur at any point over the gland. The fistula may be dry between meals, or the saliva may escape in small transparent drops, but the quantity is always greatly increased ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles |
