On spontaneous gangrene from arteritis and the causes of coagulation of the blood in diseases of the blood-vessels / by Joseph Lister.

Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: On spontaneous gangrene from arteritis and the causes of coagulation of the blood in diseases of the blood-vessels / by Joseph Lister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    j)uiictured, the clear liquor sanguinis will flow out, and coagulate upon any object held to receive it.' Some of the observations above described will have a bearing upon medico-legal inquiries, showing, as they do, that not only ecchymosis, which some have denied, but even inflammation may be developed i^ost mortem, provided that the return of blood by the veins is in some way prevented. There are other bearings, both upon pathology and practice, to which I cannot even allude on the pi'esent occasion ; but I thought it best to place the facts at once before my professional brethren, confident that they will receive from them all the attention that they may deserve. In conclusion, I have to express my thanks to my friend, Mr Craig, for the kind and able assistance which he has afforded me throughout this investigation, and also to my friends, Drs Gourlay and Hill, who have on several occasions lent me most valuable aid. ^ Post mortem congestions simulating inflammation, are, I suspect, due to this gravitation of the red corpuscles of the still fluid blood into the vessels of dependent parts. MUIIIIAY AND OIUB, PKINTEKS, EDINBUHOH.