Blood-poisoning — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Blood-poisoning is a name loosely used of Pyæmia (q.v.) and allied diseases (see DISSECTION WOUNDS, POISON, WOUNDS). It is also used popularly in a wider sense for the results on the human system of poison germs from malaria, bad drains, &c.; or for the condition of the blood caused by such ailments as Bright's disease of the kidneys, &c. See GERM, HYGIENE, MALARIA, PTOMAINES, TYPHOID FEVER, &c.