Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell.

  • John Bell
Date:
1800
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Credit: Discourses on the nature and cure of wounds / by John Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greated of all difcoveries, the circulation of the blood. It is now well proved, that Hein will adhere to Ikin, flelh to flelh, bone to bone, and all thefe parts to each other. One part only of the human body, carti- lage, will not adhere ; I have feen many proofs that car- tilage does not inflame, nor ulcerate, nor give out gra- nulations, nor generate new flelli, or at lead it does lo very llowly. A wound heals over a cartilage, but not by uniting with it.—We amputate a toe, and the flaps unite in two days, but dill they have united with each other only, and not with the cartilage ot the joint which we have cut; and in a luxated limb, we find that the bone continues dilplaced, the carti- lage never inflames, never unites with the lacerated parts, never in any circumdances adheres. For the procefs of adhefion is really this: either the arteries of oppofite furfaces inofculate mouth to mouth, or rather each cut furface throws out a gluten; the gluten fills up the intermediate fpace ; into that glu- ten, the Idler arteries of each cut furface force them- felves, and it is thus perhaps by the generation of a new intermediate fubdance, that the continuity and entirenefs of the part is fo quickly redored. It any one point fail to adhere, there the wound mud run into fuppuration ; becaufe at that point there is a fepa- ration of parts, which being equivalent to a lofs ot lub- dance, requires the generation of new flelh. When the oppofite furfaces confent and harmonize with each other, in their mode and period of aedion, then they adhere; and fo Ikin adheres to fkin, or flelli to flelli. But if one of the oppofite parts enters ia- 7 /
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