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 / by Everard Home, F.R.S. and one of the presidents of the Lyceum Medicum.

  • Home, Everard, Sir, 1756-1832.
Date:
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 / by Everard Home, F.R.S. and one of the presidents of the Lyceum Medicum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    102°; of the ox ioo° and a half, or ioi° and a half; of the rabbit ioo° and a half, or ioi° and a half; of man 99° and a half, or ioo° and a half.” IT is difficult to give a definition of any thing, the properties of which are not well ascertained; but as it is necefiary that I fliould particularize the fubfiance which I propofe to inveftigate under the term Pus, I fhall define it to be a whitifh fluid, made up of glob- ules, and a tranfparent aqueous liquor. Its produc- tion depends upon inflammation having previoufly taken place in fome part of the body, either in the common reticular membrane, upon the internal lurface of circumfcribed cavities, or the furfaces of internal canals, which I fhall call excretory dudts. Inflammation is necefiary for the formation of Pus ; and although a fluid, fomewhat fimilar, is produced without any preceding inflammation, fuch fluid not having all the properties of true Pus, can be readily diftinguifhed from it.