Volume 1

The science and practice of medicine / By William Aitken ... From the 4th London ed., with additions, by Meredith Clymer.

  • Aitken, William, 1825-1892.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The science and practice of medicine / By William Aitken ... From the 4th London ed., with additions, by Meredith Clymer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    PAGE Products, Effects, or Events of Inflammation, 101 Productive Efl'ects of Inflammation, Inflammatory Effusions, or Exuda- tions, 103 The Serum of Inflammation—Serous Effusions, 103 The Blood Effusions, or Extravasations of Inflammation, . . . 105 The Inflammatory Lymph, or Fibrine of Inflammation, .... 105 Primordial Cell-Forms in Lymph, 108 The Compound Granule-Cell, or Exudation-Corpuscle, . . . 109 The Nature and Growth of Pus-Cells, 112 Formation of Pus—Suppuration, 113 Parenchymatous and Secretory Inflammation, 117 Events which Accompany or Follow Inflammation, . . . . 117 Softening or Diminished Cohesion of Tissue, 117 Ulceration, its Nature and Mode of Operation, 118 Granulation, its Nature and the Mode of Operation through which a Wound or Sore is Healed by it, 118 Mortification, its Nature and Occurrence in the Humid or Dry Form, . 120 Local and General Symptoms of Inflammation, 121 I. Inflammatory Fever, 121 Circumstances which modify Inflammatory Fever, .... 123 II. Typhoid Fever as a Symptom of Inflammation, 124 III. Hectic Fever as a Symptom of Inflammation, 125 Section III.—Degenerations of Tissue. Definition and Pathology of Degeneration, 128 (a.) Fatty Degeneration and Histolysis, 129 (b.) Mineral Degeneration, Calcification, or Petrifaction, .... 130 (c.) Pigment Degeneration—Pigmentation—Blood-Crystals, . . . 132 (d.) Amyloid or Albuminoid Degeneration, ...... 135 Amyloid Degeneration has been long known and described under other names, 136 Albuminoid Nature of the so-called Amyloid Degeneration, .... 137 Characteristic Test of the Existence of Amyloid Degeneration, . . . 138 General Characters and Anatomical Description of the Tissues which have undergone Amyloid Degeneration, 139 Appearance of Amyloid Degeneration in Organs, 141 Elements of Tissue in which Amyloid Degeneration has been Demonstrated, 141 Origin of Amyloid Degeneration, and the Diseased States with which it has been found associated, ........... 142 Signs or Symptoms associated with this Degeneration discoverable during Life—Clinical History, 144 Dr. Stewart's Investigations, 144 Amyloid Degeneration common amongst Soldiers, 145 CHAPTER IX. Types of Disease and their Tendency to Change, .... 145 Changes of Type occur in Epidemic Fevers, 146 Medicine shown to be a Productive Art, 147