Buboes Sentence Examples

Sometimes the buboes are multiple and on both sides, but more commonly they are unilateral.

The Black Death was treated by lancing the buboes and applying a warm poultice of butter, onion and garlic.

The swellings and discolorations of the skin which play so large a part in old descriptions would probably be equally striking now but for the surgical treatment of buboes.

At the end of November 3 the disease became suddenly more severe, and most of those attacked died; and from the 21st of December it became still more malignant, death occurring in some cases in a few hours, and without any buboes being formed.

It appeared in Gaul in 546, where it is described by Gregory of Tours with the same symptoms as lues inguinaria (from the frequent seat of buboes in the groin).

In the second of these, which occurred in the Ahmedabad district of the Bombay Presidency in 1683-89, buboes ale distinctly described.

It is found in the buboes in ordinary cases, in the blood in the so-called " septicaemic " cases, and in the sputum of pneumonic cases.

The really pathognomonic sign is the appearance of buboes or inflamed glands, which happens early in the illness, usually on the second day; sometimes they are present from the outset, sometimes they cannot be detected before the third day, or even later.

Petechiae occur over buboes or on the abdomen, but they are not very common, except in fatal cases, when they appear shortly before death.

Buboes should be treated on ordinary surgical principles.