A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India / by F.H. Brett.

  • Brett, F. H. (Frederick Harrington)
Date:
1840
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Credit: A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India / by F.H. Brett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mission of certain descriptions of larger globules plug- ging up the small vessels which he tenned an “ Error loci.” It is a sufficient reply to the hypothesis of visci- dity, that if it were admitted, it would exist in the whole of the blood, and would affect every part of the body alike. Inflammation however comes on suddenly with- out any such causes. The “ Error loci” or the admis-. sion of the red globules where they ought not to he, must be acknowleded as a fact, though not exactly in the sense in which it was intended by Boerhaave. Concluding observations.—Hitherto all efforts have been unsuccessful in tracing further the secrets of na-’ ture in what is termed the “ theory” of-inflimmation. Microscopical experimentalists have come to the most opposite conclusions. All we know is that the seat of inflammation is in the capillary vessels, and that it is seated in the same vessels which carry on the healthy processes of nutrition, secretion, and. absorption. Va- rious instruments have been allotted to this process. - Some physiologists insist with Heuson, Soemmering, Bichat and others upon the existence 'of “ Subordinate sets of capillaries allotted to each function;” whilst others contend, with Richerand, Magendie, Prochaska, Mascagni and others, that they take place “ through the medium oi lateral pores in those capillares which cominunicate directly between the arteries and veins.” Although either of these may be a sufficient medium through which the processes are carried on, it is im- possible for either to be demonstrated to the sense of