Surgery : its theory and practice / by William Johnson Walsham.

  • William Walsham
Date:
1887
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Credit: Surgery : its theory and practice / by William Johnson Walsham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion in the tissues also occurs, in consequence it is said of the fibrin ferment contained in tho leucocytes causing the fibrinogen in the liquid to unite -with the fibrino- l^lastin in the leueoc;stes. The clot thus foimed con- tracts, squeezing out the serum, which is then di-ained away by the lymphatics, so that if the parts at this stage be cut into, a serous exudation will no longer escape. ,The Pig. 1.—Diagram of the minute eb:m-cs in iurtammatiou. original tissues of tlie pari, partly in consequence of the primary iniury, parily in consequence of the aceumi^i- tion of'lou'cocVtes and fluid exudation, and partly m QSh- Requ(mce of the ]ilugging of the vessels, completely lose their vitality and become swollen and softene.l, and Imal y disappear among the leucocytes, which then completely take their place, forming a mass of closely packed small cells embedded in a very slight amount of intercel ular substance. Under fa^-ourable circumstances capillary loops, derived from the vessels around, grow among these cells, which now go by the name of iiranvMwn Usme; and the cells themselves bee.nne gradually converied mto fibrmis tissue. ],reducing the condition already referred to of fihroi^l ihidanunq or srarrivff. Lnder less favour- able circumstances the iuterceUular substance m the
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