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The physiology of inflammation and the healing process / by Benjamin Travers.

  • Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858.
Date:
1844
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Credit: The physiology of inflammation and the healing process / by Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    these cases ; but let there be no interference, and the work of destruction in numberless cases is as silent as it 1s sure. 8. Most of the theories of inflammation are based upon the fact of an obstruction to the passage of the blood, whatever be the cause, real or supposed, of such obstruc- tion. Some have represented this remora as mechani- cal, others as chemical, others again as a nervous phe- nomenon. To constitute inflammation it must be all or neither, for the mechanical, chemical, and vital properties are all implicated and altered by inflammation. But either, if of a certain amount, is competent to originate inflammation, viz. an actual stasis of the blood in the vessel from a change in the diameter and action of the vessel, or in the properties of the blood, or in the natu- ral innervation of the part ; and in either case respect- ively, the two latter are an unavoidable and direct con- sequence of the first. An interruption, more or less, is occasioned if the impelling and resisting power be not balanced, as in the healthy circulation, no matter which default is the mitiative condition ; whether the inequality is induced by the loss of vital attraction between the corpuscles of the blood, or between the blood and the vessel, and the consequent aggregation of the particles of the blood in masses; or by the influence of various