A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds
A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds.
- John Hunter
- Date:
- 1812
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![with all the different inflammations in the same person, at the same time, and even in the same wound; for instance, in an amputation of a leg, where we cut through skin, cellular membrane, muscle, tendon, periosteum, bone, and marrow, the skin should give us the inflammation of its kind, the cellular membrane of its kind, the muscles of theirs, the tendons of theirs, the pe- riosteum, bone, marrow, etc. of theirs; but we find it is the same inflammation in them all; it is the adhesive in them all if the parts are brought together; it is the suppurative if parts are exposed. I shall at present only take no- tice of the four last, as I mean to treat more i\\]\y of the first, which cannot be so completely understood without seeing the distinctions. What I would call the ocdematous inflamma- tion, is when the extravasated fluid is water; it has very much the appearance of the adhesive, and probably comes the nearest to it of any, being of a scarlet colour; but much more dif- fused. The fluid extravasated, being principally the serum, renders the swelling more diffused than even the inflammation itself; it is very painful, or rather sore, but there is not so much of the throbbing sensation as in the adhesive inflammation; it appears to be only on the sur- face, but most probably goes much deeper; for in such cases the extravasated fluid is in too](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20443419M001_0498.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
