Lectures on Inflammation; Being the First Course Delivered Before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Under the Bequest of Dr. Mutter - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... LECTURE III. PHENOMENA OF INFLAMMATION CONTINUED SWELLING; CAUSED. MAINLY BY FULNESS OF BLOOD-VESSELS; ALSO BY ENLARGEMENT OF TISSUE-ELEMENTS, AND BY DEPOSIT OF NEW MATERIAL BETWEEN THEM EFFUSIONS PAIN; SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE ALTERATION OF FUNCTION--CONNECTION BETWEEN NUTRITION AND FUNCTION ALL THESE PHENOMENA ARE COEXISTENT, BUT ARE UNEQUAL IN PROPORTION--CHRONIC INFLAMMATION--ERYSIPELAS--INFLUENCE OF INFLAMMATION ON THE GENERAL BLOOD-MASS--CONSTITUTIONAL SYMPTOMS OF INFLAMMATION, OR SYMPTOMATIC FEVER. In my lecture of last week, I endeavored to set forth the rationale of the abnormal heat and redness which mark the state of inflammation; taking the ground that the former phenomenon was due to the more abundant circulation going on in the part, and that this found its explanation, not in any force exerted by the vessels, or in their debility or relaxation, but in the augmented attraction of the tissueelements for substances contained in the blood. As,to the rise of temperature, it will be remembered that it was ascribed to the abnormally increased activity of the combustion which in the state of health is the source of animal heat. "We have now to take up for study the third of the phenomena of inflammation,--the swelling. And it needs no very extended observation to show that this symptom varies much in its degree in different cases. Some tissues swell much more quickly, and to a greater extent, than others--mainly because the mechanical obstacles are less. Wherever parts are bound down by strong and inextensible fascire, or are themselves dense and firm in structure, the degree of actual swelling will be less, but the effort at its production will be the same; and the tension thus caused often gives rise to very severe suffering. One cause, and the mo...
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