A probationary essay on inflammation : submitted, by authority of the President and his council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when a candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by William Hamilton Thomson.

  • Thomason, William Hamilton.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A probationary essay on inflammation : submitted, by authority of the President and his council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when a candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by William Hamilton Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ducts of which resemble pus also in this, that (as in the case of urea) they are frequently found to exist mixed with the blood in the larger vessels, when prevented from having free egress by their appro- priate glandular organs. The transition from lymph to pus may be well seen in the healing of a common wound by the se- cond intention, in the progress of a furunculus or boil, in the change from hepatisation to purulent infiltration in pneumonia, and in the change from gelatinous to puriform sputa in bronchitis or ca- tarrh. Pus may be effused externally from a granulating surface or the surface of a secreting membrane; it may be collected in a cavity in the skin or cellular tissue, with w^alls of lymph, as in abcesses and pus- tules, or it may be loosely diffused through the pa- renchyma of an organ, as in the last stage of pneu- monia. It appears that pus is frequently absorbed into the system without producing any effect, as we see every day in the case of abscesses and pustules, which disappear without external evacuation of their contents; sometimes, however, and according to many of the French pathologists, this is the case particularly when the pus has been slightly altered by exposure to the air, very serious irritation seems