The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital.

  • William Nisbet
Date:
1796
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Credit: The clinical guide; or, a concise view of the leading facts, on the history, nature, and cure of diseases : to which is subjoined, a practical pharmacopoea .. / Intended as a memorandum-book for young practitioners, particularly students of medicine in their first attendance at the hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    it we proceed to confider the nature of Inflammation, whe more immediately confining itfelf to particular parts. 2. Inflammation confifts in a fwe.Uing and rednefs of] a part, with pain., and a lcfion of its functions; there! prevails a fenfe of throbbing, undulatory motion in] its veflels ; and the blood, when drawn, difcovers a] buff coat on the furfacc, or feparation of the glutinou part from the reft of the mads. 3. It is generally attended with a fenfe of cold and] fhiv ering, fucceeded by a degree of anxiety and opJ predion, with heat, third, and watching. The pulfe, a firil weak and.quick, becomes full and hard, and a acute or obtufe pain is felt in the affected part. 4. Its caufes are the- application of much heat a cold ; any acrid matter producing irritation ; externall violence ; morbid congeflions or determinations to par ticular parts, &c. 5. The fymptoms of inflammation evidently fhew a morbid increafe of circulation in the inflamed psrt • and likewife an increafed action of the contiguous velTelsj to a certain extent; but thefe fymptoms are modified} fomewhat by the peculiar nature of the affected part.' This ftate of inflammation is either terminated by, - ljl, Refolution. When this excefs of fluid is returne into the general circulation, or exhaling into the cellu- lar fubftance of the part, is afterwards, in a certai quantity, abforbed. 2d, Suppuration. When the matter or fluid exhale too grofs for abforption, acquires a peculiar nature, i confequence of the part afluming, as an effect of in- flammation, a fort of fecretory power. 3^/, Gangrene, When the tone of the veffels is