First principles of medicine / By Archibald Billing.

  • Archibald Billing
Date:
1831
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    not removable by the absorbents which only take up unorganised or dead matter; sometimes these tumours remain unaltered, others by their presence cause an irritation which makes the capillaries go on depositing more and more, and so adding to the tumour which thereby is increased till it is removed by operation or exhausts the animal and destroys life.. Now as was mentioned in other cases, that which arises here in con- sequence of accidental injury sometimes also takes place as the effect of disease, tumours form spontaneously either with or withovt feverish accompaniment and sometimes disappear again by what is called resolution, absorption, sometimes they suppurate forming abscess, sometimes remain indolent, sometimes they remain and erow larger, sometimes grow larger and ulcerate at the same time as in cancerous and other malignant diseases. Tumours are modified by the part they occupy and the constitution of the person, if the substance injured be fat the arteries being depositors of fat make a fatty tumor, if it be periosteum, bony, if gland, glandular, if a vascular part, a vascular tumor, which in a bad consti- tution will become FUNGUS H@MATODES, as a tumor of a secreting gland in a bad constitution will become CANCEROUS, and in a lymphatic gland scRoPHULOUS, besides peculiar matters medullary sarcoma, &c., which are deposited in a variety of situations; the tough bands which traverse fatty and other tumors are made by arteries which in a healthy state would have to sup- port membranous, cellular, or ligamentous tissues. If the absorbents cannot take up matter which is organised it may be asked how they get-away tumors; the or-