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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    OF INFLAMMATION* j y ties, but alfo extended it to the lateral, ferous, and lymphatic arteries, nay, even to the veins. For ne denned inflammation a Jlafs not Jo much in the arteries and venous tuoes, that ujually curry the bloody as in the lateral ones, •which, on account of the nar- rownefs of their diameters, naturally do not admit the red globules of toe bloody but only the thin lymbhatic fluid * 18. Hence it does not appear to him difficult to conceive, why the part is fuffufed with rednefs. Noi does he think it more difficult to underftand, wiiy the heat and feniation of burning is felt in the part. For, he obferves, the blood partly flow- ing continually through the halfobflru&ed, or con- flridled veffels, is carried along with greater velo- city ; partly alfo being prevented from flowing freely, it regurgitates to the larger branches, and produces in them a more frequent fyflole and dia- Jloie.; whence taere takes place a great mutual at- trition of the fulphureous particles, and excejive heat, which is more fenfibly felt in proportion to the greater fe,fbility of the part affected. Next he at- tributes the pain to the preffure which the nerves unde;go from both the fmaller and greater veffels being over-diftended. But he holds the lentor and thicuncfs ol the blood, by which the veffels are ob- ftruded, or the fpaftic conftridion of the fmall B