Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings from originals by the author; with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. ... / by J. Hope.

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1834
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    All the morbid states of the pulmonary substance must ne- cessarily be seated in one or other of these three parts ; and on examining portions of diseased lung, dried, and sliced, it is seen that, however diversified the nature of the disease in the several portions, all are resolved into a congeries of tubes and cells, in the midst of which it is possible to distinguish the alterations that the interior of the cavities, their walls, and the interposed cellular tissue have respectively undergone. Such of these altera- tions as admit of being demonstrated by this mode of examina- tion, are found to resolve themselves into certain morbid states similar to those which may attack any other organic canal sur- rounded by cellular tissue. By induction, therefore, it may be presumed that the same is the case with the alterations not capable of being demonstrated by drying and slicing the lung. By the analogy thus established, we are led to a more accurate and certain knowledge of the morbid states of the pulmonary substance than could be obtained by investigations confined to the substance itself; and we are enabled to say that all the diseases of the substance which produce anatomical changes, are reducible to Lesions of the Capillary Circulation ; of Nutrition, or of Secretion. Lesions of Circulation. I. Hyperemia of the Lung. This embraces: A, Passive hyperemia, whether mechanical or cadaveric; B, Active hyperemia, (peripneumony,) of which two ol the three degrees, viz. en- gorgement and hepatization, come under the present head; C, Gangrene, resulting from hyperemia whether active or passive; ]), Pulmonary apoplexy, when consequent on rupture of the vessels and extravasation into the cellular tissue. That variety of pulmonary apoplexy which consists in an exhalation of blood into the bronchial tubes, does not fall under the present head, being referrible to an alteration of secretion of the mucous membrane. II. Anemia of the Lung.—A, Resulting from haemorrhage;