Lectures on syphilitic and vaccino-syphilitic inoculations : their prevention, diagnosis and treatment / by Henry Lee.

Date:
1863
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Credit: Lectures on syphilitic and vaccino-syphilitic inoculations : their prevention, diagnosis and treatment / by Henry Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This process will, in the following pages, be called lymphatic absorption. 3rd. The inoculated part may, within a few days of the application of the poison, be affected with suppu- rative inflammation; and 4th. The morbid action may terminate in mortifica- tion. Of this there are two -practical subdivisions :— (a) Death of the whole infected part, which is then thrown off as a slough; and (b) Dissolution and death of a part only of the contaminated structure, leaving a part still infected. These four kinds of morbid processes, essentially distinct when once developed, usually maintain their original character until the termination of the disease. Thus the specific adhesive inflammation may be recog- nized by its characteristic induration, often long- after the sore (which usually accompanies it) has per- manently healed. But it will, nevertheless, occasion- ally happen that the action will become changed, and this altered condition (if careful attention be not paid to it) will lead to an error in the diagnosis. A sore affected with adhesive inflammation, upon the applica- tion of some fresh irritant, may become a suppurating sore. The superinduced action may perhaps modify, but will not prevent, the specific results of the original disease; or again, a sore that has presented for a time the characters of the suppurative inflammation, will
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