Volume 1

The science and practice of medicine / by William Aitken.

  • William Aitken
Date:
1863
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Credit: The science and practice of medicine / by William Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Altered Supply of Blood to the Part in Inflammation, ... 60 The Phenomena of Stasis, ....... 65 The Constitution of the Blood is altered in Inflammation as regards its adaptability to Nourish the part, ...... 66 Objects of more Extended Inquiry regarding Inflaramation, ... 69 The Causes of Stasis and of Exudation, ... .71 The Essential Nature of Inflammation, . . . . . 73 Products, Effects, or Events of Inflammation, . . . .75 Productive Effects of Inflammation, Inflammatory Effusions, or Exuda- tions, ......... 77 The Serum of Inflaimnation—Serous Effusion, .... 77 The Blood Effusions, or Extravasations of Inflammation, ... 79 The Inflammatory Lymph, or Fibrine of Inflammation, . . . 80 Primordial Cell Forms in Lymph, ...... 83 The Compound Granule Cell, or Exudation Corpuscle, . . 85 The Nature and Growth of Pus Cells, ..... 87 Formation of Pus—Suppuration, ...... 88 Parenchymatous and Secretory Inflammation, .... 93 Events which accompany or follow Inflanunation, .... 93 Softening, or Diminished Cohesion of Tissue, .... 94 Ulceration, its Nature and Mode of Operation, .... 94 Granulation, its Nature and the Mode of Operation through which a Wound or Sore is Healed by it, . . . . . • .94 Mortification, its Nature and Occurrence in the Humid or Dry Form, . • 97 Local and General Symptoms of Inflammation, .... 98 (1.) Inflammatory Fever, ....... 98 Circumstances which modify Inflammatory Fever, . . . 101 (2.) Tjqphoid Fever as a Symptom of Inflammation, . . . 102 (3.) Hectic Fever as a Symptom of Inflammation, .... 103 Section IIL—Degenerations of Tissue. Definition and Pathology of Degeneration, ..... 106 {a.) Fatty Degeneration, . . . . . . .107 (6.) Mineral Degeneration, Calcification, or Petrifaction, . . . 109 (c.) Pigment Degeneration—Pigmentation, . . . .111 (d.) Amyloid or Albuminoid Degeneration, . . . .114 Amyloid Degeneration has been long known and descx-ibed under other names, . . . . . . . . .115 ^Z&MTOmoitZ Nature of the so-called Amyloid Degeneration, . . * 117 Characteristic Test of the Existence of Amyloid Degeneration, . . 119 General Characters and Anatomical Description of the Tissues which have undergone Amyloid Degeneration, . . . . . .120 Appearance of Amyloid Degeneration in Organs, .... 121 Elements of Tissue in which Amyloid Degeneration has been Demonstrated, 121 Origin of Amyloid Degeneration, and the Diseased States with which it has been found associated, . . • . . . .123 Signs or Symptoms associated with this Degeneration discoverable during Life, 124 Amyloid Degeneration common amongst Soldiers, . . • 125
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