Volume 2

Elements of the theory and practice of physic and surgery / by John Aitken, M. D. fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; one of the surgeons of the Royal Infirmary; member of the Royal Medical Society-of Edinburgh; member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; lecturer on the practice of physic; and on anatomy, surgery, and chemistry ; in two volumes.

  • Aitken, John, -1790.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Elements of the theory and practice of physic and surgery / by John Aitken, M. D. fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; one of the surgeons of the Royal Infirmary; member of the Royal Medical Society-of Edinburgh; member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; lecturer on the practice of physic; and on anatomy, surgery, and chemistry ; in two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S U R G R Y. ygS. The influence of the occafional caiife(79i.) of inflammation {776.) is often fo powerful as to require no co-operation from peculiar predifpolition (790.): the af- fedlion thus induced, by fome, has been name'd pajjtve inflammation, probably for thecaufe, that haemorrhage (137.), in cer- tain circumftances, is fo denominated. Seat of Injlammation. 799. Obfervation teaches, that inflarrf- mation (776.) may occupy any part of the living (25.) animal (23.) body; that, the mofl fenlible or impreflible are mofl: obnoxious to it—the integuments, the mufcuiar ftrudlure: and, that, the preva- lence of the cellular textui^e favours the ac- cefllon of fuppuration (785.). tiones. ferofae profiifiores. Acria qua^cunqne, ftirnii- Jantia five appHcata five ingella venena, fpirittis fer- ^naentati potiilque frigidus aeiluance corpore. Praeter fridiones fortes, vulnera, fracturas, luxationes, coft- tufiones, punduras, ligaturas arfte appofitns, com- jprelTiones, diltorliones, conibultiones ; balnea et fri- -giiJa et calida. Fit quoqiie inflammatio metaftatica per tranllationem maieriae morbofne ad hunc vel il- ium locum. De Meza Compaid. Mediaim Vrciaicuw, fnfcicul. alter. J 4. Vol. II. D