Inflammation regarded as a physiological reaction to an infecting lesion : the oration of the Hunterian Society, delivered at the London Institution, February 11th, 1885 / by F. Charlewood Turner.

  • Turner, Francis Charlewood, 1843-1900.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Inflammation regarded as a physiological reaction to an infecting lesion : the oration of the Hunterian Society, delivered at the London Institution, February 11th, 1885 / by F. Charlewood Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whicli proved tliat tlie occurrence of suppuration in tlie former case depended upon the presence of the micro- organisms in the fluid injected^ and was not due merely to septic matters held in solution by it. The same thing is shown (3) by the results of Wegner’s experiments^ in which he showed that the injection of distilled water into the peritoneal cavity of an animal^ if in such amount as to remain in part unabsorbed after a certain time^ induced rapidly fatal peritonitis by the develojDinent in the fluid of micrococcg derived from atmospheric con- tamination of the water^ or absorbed from the intestinal tract. That the development of these organisms was the immediate cause of the peritonitis^ is proved by the results of his previous experiments, which showed that the peri- toneum is not appreciably injured by more prolonged contact with water, if sufficiently renewed. That the same phlogogenic organisms have access to tissues unexposed to the air, either indirectly through the blood or by channels which elude observation, and that they are constantly associated with suppurative in- flammation, in these as in exposed tissues, is proved by the results of Professor Ogston’s extended investiga- tions, in which he showed that micrococci are invariably to be found in the pus obtained from abscesses when first opened, in their acuter stages. Although from the partly negative results of other observers, there might have appeared to be some uncertainty as to the result of Ogston’s careful and elaborate observations, it seemed most probable that this discrepancy was due in part to ' less reliable methods of investigation, and in part to the quiescent character of some of the abscesses examined by the less successful observers. And this has been
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