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.

    494/502 page 476
    47^ mation here may alfo produce floughs or gangrene. Inflammation of membf-anes is alfo verj painful: Their appearance, from the change of the nature of the organic par- ticles, is always altered : They uniform- ly become thicker and more opake; and this ftrudure they often retain, after the inflammation goes off, as we fee in the lucid cornea of the eye. * When mufcles are inflamed, they fwell; the organic particles are in part aflpe(fled j the interflitial fluid becomes thicker, and the power of motion is greatly diminiflied. The mofl frequent termination here is a fecretion of the in- terftitial fluid, fimilar to that in health, but in rather greater quantity *. If, * When a mufcle is inflamed at the time of death, we find the interftices full of a lymphatic interflitial fluid.
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