Surgical cases and observations / [Richard Carmichael].

  • Carmichael, Richard, 1779-1849
Date:
1818
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Credit: Surgical cases and observations / [Richard Carmichael]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in general attributed to a wound of the tendon of the biceps muscle. His view of the subject, however, deserves more attention than it seems to have received. Inflammation of the veins, like inflammation elsewhere, will have its degrees. It m$y only produce a slight thickening of the coats of the vessel, and of the cellular membrane around the injured part; or it may extend along the vein in both directions exciting the deposition of coagulable lymph, and the final obliteration of its cavity by the adhesion of its sides. But if the inflammation exists in a still higher degree, the internal coat of the vessel will undergo a change to adapt it to the secretion of pus, which, according as it is formed, will, of necessity, mingle with the general mass of blood, except as is sometimes the case, the cavity of the vein is obstructed at different intervals, by the adhesion of its sides, when a chain of abscesses will in consequence form along the course of the vessel. These abscesses, however, had not formed in the instance I have mentioned, nor in that which I shall presently detail. In both of them it is probable that the great disturbance of the system, and the peculiar typhoid character of the symp¬ toms, may have been owing to the admixture of pus with the general mass of blood. The only case I have met with in print, which