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

  • William Walsham
Date:
1889
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Credit: Surgery : its theory and practice / by William Johnson Walsham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    become softened and finalh' replaced by the infiltrating leucocytes which, now form a laj'er of small round cells welding as it were the surfaces of the woimd together (Fig. 19^. The inflammation, like all inflammations of traumatic origin, tends ta cease as soon as the cause is Fig. 19.—Diagram of an incised wonnd a daj' or tw o after the in- cision. The sides of the wound united by small round cells. removed. Thus in a day or two it subsides, and if a sec- tion of the parts were iiow made, the uniting layer of small round cells could be seen permeated by delicate new cajjillaries stretching across from one side of the wound to the other (Fig. 20). They are generally believed Fi(i. 20.—Diagram of an incised wound, a few days after the incision. Loops of ca]>illaries growing out from the old capillaries and making their way amongst the small round cells uniting the cut surfaces. At the lower part of the figure a loop has unite<l witii one from the ojiposite side. to be iiroduccd bv loops gi'owing out from the old capillaries, and tmiiing Avith others similarly ]iroduced, and growing out from the cajiillarics on the o].])o.-:ite .^idc. This%-ascularization of the uniting layer of cells accoinits
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