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.

Date:: 1821

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$sidering the method of cure. Every thing which he has left us commands our respect so strongly, that I should not feel myself justified in proposing any new mode, without previously making it ap- pear that we are not precluded by any thing he has done. In Appendix, No, 1, will be found ^^other au- the chief heads under which other authors of cele- brity have divided the subject, and the names of the species they have described. I shall now proceed. The arrangement of inflammations here proposed is founded upon the following facts: Isf. That the mode of repairing injury, and ofproposrd' arresting the progress of inflammatory diseases, first! depends upon the power which the animal (Econo- my possesses of effusing organizable lymph. If The dispo«i. this exists in any given case, in a sufficient degree, by\hr'effu the progress of the inflammation will be limited which give» the class. if the contrary, it will spread. And the danger of the disease being in pro- portion to the disp<)sition to spread cateris paribus, more constitutional sympathy, denominated sym- pathetic fever, will be excited. And this sympathetic fever, however salutary in its nature, will, when it exceeds certain bounds, tend to augment rather than lessen the mischief. The disposition to spread may be owing either to the nature of the part, as a surface ; of the cause, as a poison; or to the state of the consti-$