Lectures on inflammation : being the first course delivered before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, under the bequest of Dr. Mütter / by John H. Packard.

  • John Hooker Packard
Date:
1865
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    CONTENTS. LECTURE I. Introductory Remarks—Disease not a Superadded Entity—General Causes of Dis- ease—Relation of Inflammation to other Diseases—Inflammation always a Disease—Always the same—Always a Modification of the Nutritive Process —Normal Nutrition—How altered within the Bounds of Health 9 LECTURE II. Comparison between Organization of the Living Body and that of an Army— Phenomena of Inflammation—Diagnosis—Redness; its Main Cause an In- creased Flow of Blood to the Part, due not to Relaxation or Activity of the Vessels, but to the Vis a Fronte exerted by the Cell-elements—Heat; Degree of; Cause of, chiefly Combustion; Views of Carpenter, Draper, Dalton, and Milne-Edwards on this Subject 39 LECTURE III. Phenomena of Inflammation continued—Swelling; caused mainly by Fulness of Blood-vessels; also by Enlargement of Tissue-elements, and by Deposit of New Material between them—Effusions—Pain; Subjective and Objective— Alteration of Function—Connection between Nutrition and Function—All these Phenomena are coexistent, but are unequal in Proportion—Chronic Inflammation—Erysipelas—Influence of Inflammation on the General Blood- mass—Constitutional Symptoms of Inflammation, or Symptomatic Fever 71 LECTURE IV. Causes of Inflammation—They must operate on Individual Cells—They may be Mechanical, Chemical or Vital—Irritability—Reflex Nervous Influences— Direct Response of Cells to Stimulation—Mechanical Causes—Chemical— Vital—Rationale—Law of Irritability, Functional, Nutritive and Formative Law of Reaction—Law of Mutual Relation of Parts—Law of Sympathy— Special Applications of these Laws—Tendency to adhere to Normal Type— Contagious Inflammations—Influence of Heat and Cold—Tubercle and Can- cer as Causes Inflammation 105