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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    51/76 (page 45)
    opened, and the contents removed; they were fluid, tranfparent, and coagulated by heat; had no appear- l ance of globules when examined by the microfcope; and in every refpedt refembled the ferum of the blood. The cuticle was not removed; but allowed to col- lapfe; and the fluid, which was formed upon the furface of the cutis, was examined from time to time, by a microfcope, to detedl, as accurately as poflible, the changes which took place. The better to do this, as the quantity in the intervals ftated below muft be exceedingly fmall, a piece of talc, very thin and tranf- parent, was applied to the whole furface, and covered with an adheflve plafter ; and the furface of the talc, applied to the fkin, was removed and examined by the microfcope, applying a frefh piece of talc after every examination, to prevent any miftake which might have arifen from the furface not being quite clean. The fluid was examined by the microfcope, to afcer- tain its appearance; but as the aqueous part in which the globules of Pus fwim, is found, by experiment, to coagulate, by adding to it a faturated folution of fal ammoniac, which is not the cafe with the ferum of the G