Pyaemia is the poisoning of what?
Pyaemia Casper, a wounded soldier in "Nostalgia," by Dennis McFarland, is dying of pyemia after his lower arm is amputated. Pyaemia Pyaemia (or pyemia) is a type of septicaemia that leads to widespread abscesses of a metastatic nature. It is usually caused by the staphylococcus bacteria by pus-forming organisms in the blood. Apart from the distinctive abscesses, pyaemia exhibits the same symptoms as other forms of septicaemia. It was almost universally fatal before the introduction of antibiotics. Sir William Osler included a three-page discussion of pyaemia in his textbook "The Principles and Practice of Medicine", published in 1892. He defined pyaemia
Pyaemia of medicine, was widely scorned for his belief and was committed to an insane asylum where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed. The nihilistic character Bazarov in Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" dies of pyaemia. Miller Huggins, manager of the New York Yankees, died of pyaemia while managing the team during the 1929 season. Blind Boy Fuller died at his home in Durham, North Carolina on February 13, 1941 at 5 p.m. of pyemia due to an infected bladder, gastrointestinal tract and perineum, plus kidney failure.