Crossword-Solution: SEPTICAEMIC 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The patient who is plunged into this grave condition is the victim of a fever which is unquestionably septicaemic in character; he has a small, frequent, and often fluttering pulse; his mental condition is betrayed by a delirium of varying grade or he lies comatose.

Moreover, when, as was true of certain of the reported cases, the rash appeared irregularly upon the surface, and faded away in two or three days with the abatement of the fever, and the conditions for septic absorption were present, the efflorescence was probably septicaemic.

The surgeons who consulted over the case of this private disagreed in opinion, some regarding the disease as septicaemic, others as scarlatinous.

The joints may be inflamed either by sympathy or by direct extension of the erysipelatous inflammation to the periarticular tissues, or yet by the occurrence, in or about them, of metastatic abscesses in septicaemic conditions.

Another may enter the blood from a recent wound and give rise to a septicaemic fever with rapidly fatal termination.