A dissertation on the process of nature in the filling up of cavities, healing of wounds, and restoring parts which have been destroyed in the human body; which obtained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXIX / [James Carrick Moore].

  • Moore, James Carrick, 1763-1834.
Date:
1789
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Credit: A dissertation on the process of nature in the filling up of cavities, healing of wounds, and restoring parts which have been destroyed in the human body; which obtained the prize-medal, given by the Lyceum Medicum Londinense, for the year MDCCLXXXIX / [James Carrick Moore]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / SECTION L 4#* IN WHAT MANNER ARE CAVITIES, WHETHER FORMED BY SUPPURATION, WOUNDS, OR OTHER¬ WISE, FILLED UP?-AND WHAT ARE THE AP¬ PEARANCES OF THEIR FILLING UP PROPERLY?’7 ESIT3B IN ONE of the cavities, which are here fpoken of, ria- turally exift in the human body. They are all produ¬ ced by a folution of continuity of the folids, and are formed either in confequence of fome external injury, or internal difeafe. This divifion of parts, which na¬ turally cohere, nvuft prevent or difturb their functions. In order to alleviate or remove this inconveniency, the Vis Medicatrix Nature, or the natural power of the -body, endeavours to fill up or obliterate fuch cavities.