A manual for students who are preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall / John Steggall.

  • Steggall, John, 1795?-1871.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A manual for students who are preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall / John Steggall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which probably possess at that time a greater degree of sensibility. , | 5. The heat may depend upon the in¢reased quantity of blood in the part, and some peculiar property of the nerves. 6. The redness is occasioned by the accumu- lation of the blood in the vessels, a portion of which RES TCUPlY carried only the colourless parts of the ood. 7. The swelling is effected by the accumulation of blood, and the effusion of lymph, into the cel- lular tissue; the action of the absorbents being, at the same time, somewhat suspended. 8. Inflammation terminates by resolution, indu- ration, effusion, suppuration, ulceration, and gan- erene. 9. Resolution implies -a subsidence of the inflammation, without any apparent organic altera- tion.' 10. In suppuration a new fluid, named pus, is formed. When it takes place internally, it is known by the pain becoming of a throbbing kind; there is a sensation of weight in the part; the pulse continues frequent, but is soft and full; and rigors and night sweats, or hectic fever, supervene. 11. In ulceration there is an increased action of the absorbent vessels, which remove a portion of the living solids. This process is of service in separating the dead from the living parts. 12. When gangrene, sphacelus, or mortification, takes place, it 1s known by the sudden cessation of pain, a sinking irregular pulse, a cadaverous and wild countenance, and delirium; where it occurs externally, the parts which were red, become 7 2 a