A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds

A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
1812
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Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases where this inflammation arises from vio- lence, that it gives little or no pain A man shall be shot through the cavity of the abdomen, and if none of the contained parts are materially hurt, the adhesive inflammation shall take place in all the internal parts contiguous to the wound made by the ball, and yet no great degree of pain shall be felt. This assertion is still proved by the little pain suffered after many bruises, where there is evident inflammation; and in simple fractures, the pain from the inflamma- tion is very trifling, whatever it may be from the laceration of the parts. But this will be according to the degree of inflammation, what stage it is in, and what parts are inflamed, as will be fully explained hereafter. We find it a common principle in the animal machine, that every part increases in some de- gree according to the action required. Thus we find muscles increase in size when much ex- ercised •, vessels become larger in proportion to the necessity of supply, as for instance, in the gravid uterus; the external carotids in the stag, also, when his horns are growing, are much larger than at any other time; and I have observed, that in inflammation the vessels be- come larger, more blood passes, and there appear to be more actions taking place; but the nerves do not seem to undergo any change.