A dissertation on the properties of pus; which gained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXVIII, and was ordered to be printed for the use of the Society ... / [Sir Everard Home].

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1788
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Credit: A dissertation on the properties of pus; which gained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXVIII, and was ordered to be printed for the use of the Society ... / [Sir Everard Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Although I mean to confine myfelf to the confidera- tion of thofe circumftances which are effential to the formation of Pus in a living animal body, yet the opinion of a preternatural degree of heat being produ¬ ced in inflammation, which has been fuppofed necef- fary to the formation of Pus, is at prefent fo prevalent, that it will be neceflfary, before we enter upon the in- vefiigation of our fubjedt, to fhow the degree of heat which is really found to be prefent in inflamed parts in different fituations in the body. The heat of inflamed parts has been fo well afcer- tained by Mr. Hunter, whofe experiments on this fubjedt are given in his lectures, that it will not be neceflfary for me to do more than to give an extradt from his ledtures on that fubjedt. EXPERIMENT I. “ An incifion was made into the thorax of a dog, about the centre of the right-fide, and a thermometer was introduced, with the ball in contadt, or nearly fo
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