Volume 1

The institutions of the practice of medicine; delivered in a course of lectures. By Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld / Translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown.

  • Borsieri de Kanilfeld, Giambattista, 1725-1785.
Date:
1806-
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Credit: The institutions of the practice of medicine; delivered in a course of lectures. By Jo. Baptist Burserius de Kanifeld / Translated from the Latin, by William Cullen Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *3 produced, the influent fpirit, or, as I would ex- plain it, the nervous influence, and the blood itleifi. from all quarters is attracted to the part affeded, and is there accumulated* But, at the fame time, the innate fpirit, or, to ufe phrafeology better adapted to modern ears, the irritability of the veil els, and deficity of all the fibres, are roufed to motion and ad ion. From fuch a re- ciprocal action and re-action, or confild, and col- lifwn, heat and effervefcence arife. Moreover^ when the nerves are pained, and the mufcular fibres are violently irritated, fpafms, or unufuai and vehement contradions, take place in the part afteded, by which the courfe of the blood,, and efpecially its return by the veins, is rendered not only more difficult, but is fometimes entirely precluded. Hence its retardation, congeftion^ tumour, tenfion, and the rednefs of the inflamed part, may eafily be derived. Such appears to me to be the fubftance of the fir ft opinion of this ce- lebrated author concerning inflammation. 15. I fhall now proceed to the other. In it, contrary to what he fuppofes above, he is entirely of opinion, that the tumours, called Inflamma- tions, mull be derived from the accumulation of blood detained in the venous capillaries and • cir- cumjacent parts, foon beginning to grow warm there, and exciting' a difagreeable fenfe of pain