Copy 1, Volume 1

Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns].

  • John Burns
Date:
1800
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dissertations on inflammation / [John Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    487/502 page 469
    The terminations are either refolution, or gangrene, (in which cafe the portion becomes fofter and thinner, and of a more dnfky colour, or black, where there are membranes), or fuppuration *; in which cafe, a thick yellow pus is formed, and coma is produced. If this abfcefs • be opened, the patient fometimes reco- vers, and the ulcerative adlion com- mences. The granulations are red, and very vafcular, which we learn, by find- ing them, after death, to be of a dark bloody colour. The pulfe is always quickened, and becomes hard; but its condition, with refped; to fullnefs and fmallnefs, is uncertain. When the eye is inflamed, the veffels * If fuppuration does not take place, either the interfti- tial or the exhalent fluid is thrown out in greater quantity, and dropfy is produced.
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