Volume 1

A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds.

  • John Hunter
Date:
1812
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : thoughts upon the subject, and was induced to tion of my opinions on inflammation. About the year 1770, when I began my lectures on the principles of disease, inflammation was the tending and correcting the materials, my prin- ciples remain the same. ‘To distinguish the different species of inflammation,’ and to ex- press my own ideas the better, I was naturally led to substitute such terms as appeared to me more expressive of what was meant, than those usually employed. The best test of the pro- priety of these terms is, that they have been period; and indeed my principles have under- gone the same kind of test. In this some medical writers have been very liberal; for, not contented with taking hints, they have even @ In the course of this work 1 very often make use of the word species or specific, by which I only mean peculiarities ot distinctions; and probably the term is much too loose in its application ; for as we are not entirely acquainted with the specific differences in disease, we may call that a species poisons we can miake a correct arrangement; but, with regard to disease arising from peculiarities in the constitution, we have no such absolute guides. : | =