Observations on some of the general principles and on the particular nature and treatment of the different species of inflammation : being, with additions, the subject of an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons / by J. H. James.

  • James, J. H.
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1821
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    difference in the nature of the part inflamed: but this is certainly not the case; for if it was, we should soon be made acquainted with all the dif- ferent inflammations in the same person, at the same time, and even in tlie same wound. For instance, in an amputation of a leg, where we cut through the skin, cellular membrane, muscle, ten- don, periosteum, bone, and marrow, the skin should give us the inflammation of its kind, the cellular membrane of its kind, the muscles of theirs, the periosteum, bone, marrow, ^c, of theirs; but we find it is the same inflammation in them all. 2d. That the same kind of inflammation is often met with in different tissues*. Besides the striking instance just quoted, I may observe, that the skin, mucous membranes, glands, periosteum, bone, ^c, are liable to inflammation from syphilis; almost every structure in the body from scrofula ; the urethra and bladder, if not the bowels, are sometimes affected by rheumatism. The inflammation in the diathesis of measles, small pox, erysipelas, ^c, may fix upon serous or mucous membranes, as well as skin, and often, if not generally, does so. 3d. They are often transferred from one tissue to another. It is maintained, that when this happens, the * 'I'his position is, iis it were, the converse of the first.