Acupressure : an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds / by William Pirrie and William Keith.

  • William Pirrie
Date:
1867
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    and hence this method is called that by immediate imion. For the accomplishment of this method—of which several examples will be found in the next chapter—the essential conditions are :—perfect coapta- tion of the incised surfaces, and the entire absence of the inflammatory process. 4 SECOND—HEALING BY PRIMARY ADHESION, OR UNION BY ADHESIVE INFLAMMATION. This method of healing differs from the former, in the presence of reparative material in the plane at which the parts were separated. This new material— fibrine, lymph, or nucleated blastema—exudes from the cut surfaces as a product of adhesive inflammation, and unites them together. In this exudation, in con- sequence of a creative force with which it is endowed, nuclei become developed, and, imder favourable cir- cumstances, it becomes transmuted into fibres and connective tissue—the permanent substance of repair. Principal Constituents and Varieties of Lymph. In inflammatory lymph two essentially different constituents are found, namely :—fibrine, and certain ])odies, the exudation cells of some authors, the plastic corpuscles of Bennett, and the pyoid of Lebert. The characters of the lymph differ remark-