Essentials of surgery, together with a full description of the handkerchief and roller bandage : arranged in the form of questions and answers prepared especially for students of medicine / by Edward Martin.

  • Martin, Edward, 1859-1938.
Date:
[1900],1909
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Credit: Essentials of surgery, together with a full description of the handkerchief and roller bandage : arranged in the form of questions and answers prepared especially for students of medicine / by Edward Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ESSENTIALS OF SURGERY. INFLAMMATION. What is inflammation ? Inflammation is the succession of changes which occurs in an injured living tissue, provided the injury is not to the degree of at once destroying tissue or vitality. Name the varieties of inflammation. Acute and chronic, simple and infective. What is simple inflammation ? An inflammation limited in extent, and tending to recovery. What is infective inflammation ? An inflammation caused by micro-organisms, and having a tendency to spread. What is coagulation necrosis ? Death of tissue from arrested nutrition or from the action of chemical or thermal agents, the changes seen being due partly to coagulation of lymph, and partly to cell changes. Name the causes of inflammation. 1. Predisposing. Anythino; lowering the powers of resistance, such as heredity, age, sex, occupation, habits, food, previous in- flammation, temperature, climate, temperament, mental con- dition. 2. Exciting. Traumatism, heat, cold, acids, alkalies, micro- organisms and their products. How does inflammation extend? By the means of bloodvessels or lymphatics. Extension by continuity, contiguity, metastasis, and sympathy is really due to either the blood or lymph vessels. How may inflammation terminate ? 1. Eesolution, or return of tissues to their normal condition. 2. Organization, or tissue-production. 3. Death of tissue, by suppuration or mortification. What are the phenomena of inflammation? 1. Disturbed innervation, causing, first, a contraction of the i