Lectures on pathology delivered at the London Hospital / by Henry Gawen Sutton ; edited by Maurice Eden Paul and revised by Samuel Wilks.

Date:
1891
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Credit: Lectures on pathology delivered at the London Hospital / by Henry Gawen Sutton ; edited by Maurice Eden Paul and revised by Samuel Wilks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LECTURE II. INFLAMMATION. All pathological cliauges are merely modified physiological changes, there is no essential difference between the two. Thus, serous effusion from the capillaries into the plasma of the tissues is an ordinary process of healthy nutrition, but that serum in excess becomes dropsy. White corpuscles coming out of the capillaries into the plasma is also a normal process, but white corpuscles in excess become the products of inflammation and suppuration. In normal tissue-change the colouring matter of the bile and of the urine are derived from the red blood- corpuscles. In disease we may see processes like these take place. Eed blood-corpuscles appear in the urine, a little while afterwards they are broken up and are replaced by htematin granules, and later these granules are replaced by the normal pigment of the urine. A person may at first complain merely of nervousness, and successively of tremor, of spasm, and of epileptic fits. These gradations show how insidiously healthy pass into morbid processes. The tissues consist of tissue-forms and circulating material. A common prelude to inflammation is a morbid fixity of the tissue-forms. That which we know as death is the fixed forms remaining, but the circulation has ceased. So long as the circulation continues there is life ; that applies to the part and to the body as a whole; and just as the circulation in the tissues IS maintained by the general circulation of the body, so the latter is maintained by the circulation of the deeper and outer world. As in the struggle for existence there is a con- tinual exercise and mental influence, so there are similar changes m the nutrition of the tissues, in combining with the water
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