"Septical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proctitis, and often colitis, and am forced to believe it is the most common and proximate cause of chronic constipation of the bowels. Constipation being a primary symptom, there must of necessity follow numerous secondary symptoms, of which diarrhea well marks the progress of septic infection. Some of the symptoms of infection are headache, megrim, vertigo, dyspepsia, foul tongue and mouth, back-aches, stiff neck, gnawing pain or numb feeling at the lower end of the spine, biliousness, bad odor from breath and skin, muddy complexion, ...
— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison
... results of the surgical work done during the campaign were excellent, and taken as a whole the occurrence of any severe form of septic disease was unusual. ...
— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins |
