The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The practice of medicine, according to the plan most approved by the Reformed or Botanic Colleges of the U. S : embracing a treatise on materia medica and pharmacy ; illustrated with numerous engravings ; designed principally for families / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following cut from Baillie, well illustrates these ad- hesions. Inflammations of the serous membranes seldom end in ul- ceration. In inflammation of the mucous membranes the reverse ob- tains. In this case the effusion consists of mucous, which is at first considerably transparent, but afterwards becomes more opaque and puriform.* In some instances the mucous is tin- ged or even deeply stained with blood, as is evinced in bron- chitis, and pretty generally in dysentery or bloody flux. It is rarely the case that we observe the exudation of coag- ulable lymph, in inflammations of this texture. Nevertheless, it occurs, sometimes, as seen in cases of cynanche trcchcalis or croup, and in extreme cases, in the bowels and vagina, in which it is called false-membrane.] This disposition of the textures, is a very happy and impor- tant circumstance, for if the reverse should occur,—if the mu- cous surfaces should exude coagulable lymph, and the serous surfaces mucous, or pus, we would find that in inflammations of the oesophagus, bowels, urethra, vagina, &c, that they would contract adhesions and close up their passages, while the pleura, pericardium, peritoneum, &c. would be subject, on the occurrence of inflammation, to ulcerations, and thus be attended with consequences almost certain to prove immedi- ately fatal. It seems that when inflammations implicate parts constitu- ted of various textures, that these, severally, evince their com- mon characteristics. Thus the mucous textures throw out *When the inflammation subsides or the mucous becomes more cool, it ra-as- sumes its transparency. tThis is what Dr. S. Thomson, denominated conker.