A probationary essay on inflammation : submitted, by authority of the President and his council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when a candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by William Hamilton Thomson.

  • Thomason, William Hamilton.
Date:
1836
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Credit: A probationary essay on inflammation : submitted, by authority of the President and his council, to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, when a candidate for admission into their body, in conformity to their regulations respecting the admission of ordinary Fellows / by William Hamilton Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lowing are the more obvious phenomena which re- sult :— 1. Increased sensibility of the part, amounting at last to pain, which varies in nature and intensity, according to the violence of the disease and the tissue in which it is situated. 2. At first the capillary vessels, if examined mi- croscopically, are seen to contract, and the circula- tion to become more rapid than usual. In the next stage, however, the vessels begin to dilate, and the motion of the blood is retarded, and finally, at least in the portion most severely inflamed, com- pletely arrested, while to this spot there appears to be an attraction of the blood from all the surround- ing capillaries, even in a direction contrary to its natural motion. 3. There is an increase of temperature to the ex- tent of a few degrees, seldom exceeding that of the internal parts of the body, though to the individual, from the increased sensibility of the nerves, it ap- j)ears much greater than it really is. 4. Very soon after the commencement of the diseased process, more or less of the serum of the blood is separated from it, and effused into the sur- rounding tissue. During the retardation of the mo- tion of the blood, this serum begins to be mixed with matters of a more solid nature, and differing