A dissertation on the process of nature in the filling up of cavities, healing of wounds, and restoring parts which have been destroyed in the human body; which obtained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXIX / [James Carrick Moore].

  • James Moore
Date:
1789
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Credit: A dissertation on the process of nature in the filling up of cavities, healing of wounds, and restoring parts which have been destroyed in the human body; which obtained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXIX / [James Carrick Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thefe fymptoms gradually diminifh. At length all pain and tenfion difappear, and the rednefs is confined to the furface of the fore, and lefs than a quarter of an inch around it. The difcharge, likewife, alters mate¬ rially. It is at fird of a thin confidence, of a ferous colour and offenfive fmell; and by degrees it becomes thick and vifcid, of a yellowifli or white colour, and nearly inodorous. The fore then granulates, and in proportion as the granulations arife, the difcharge leflens in quantity, and becomes thicker in confidence. Wbild the wound is granulating, the edges of the fore approach to each other, which diminidies its width. It feems extraordinary, that the wounded parts, con¬ trary to their natural eladicity, fhould approach each other in this manner. Some have accounted for this fadt by fuppofing, that the granulations are endowed with mufcular powers, and that Nature had contrived this method of ledening wounds, and preventing large cicatrices. But if wounds are narrowly obferved, it will be perceived that there is no necefiity for bedowing thefe extraordinary properties upon granulations; and that this phenomenon is Amply owing to the abatement
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