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.

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    moft impoffible for gangrene to take place. The pain is generally pricking, or lancinating, although m fome parti- cular glands, as, for inftance, the tefti- cle, it is more of the gravitating kind. > When the cellular fubftance is in- flamed, the fwelling is confiderable, and the fenfation chiefly that of tenfion, or the fame as if a perfon were rudely handling a very delicate part j but tvhen the cutis becomes affedled, the rednefs is great, and the feeling of heat very acute. All the terminations of inflammation may take place in the cellular fubftance j but the inflammation of the cutis gener- ally ends either in a flight difcharge of pcrfpirable matter, followed by a def- quamation of the cuticle, or in gan- grene. These modifications of Ample inflam-
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