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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    of is more common to the throat than any other part, often going down the trachea: whatever it is, it may be considered in some of its effects to be in direct opposition to the adhesive and the suppurative inflammations; for where the adhe- sive most readily produces adhesions, there the erysipelatous does not, as in the common cellu- lar membrane; and where the adhesive seldom takes place, excepting from extreme violence, there this inflammation (if erysipelatous) has a tendency to produce adhesions, as in canals or outlets; it also opposes, in some degree, the suppurative, in being backward in producing suppuration even in those places where suppu- ration most readily takes place, such as canals and outlets; for there, as above observed, it more readily throws out the coagulating lymph. Whatever the inflammation may be, it is cer- tainly attended with nearly the same kind of constitutional affection. The fever in both appears to be the same, viz. accompanied with debility, languor, etc. The extravasation in consequence of the erysipelatous inflammation is not so great as in either the adhesive, or the cedematous; nor is it of that kind which pro- duces adhesions between the parts inflamed, which in this inflammation would commonly be unnecessary, as it seldom produces suppuration, but is attended with very bad consequences