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Lectures on Some Subjects Connected With Practical Pathology and Surgery (1)
Lectures on Some Subjects Connected With Practical Pathology and Surgery - 1 Author:Henry Lee Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: John Churchill and sons Subjects: Medical / Pathology Medical / Surgery / General Medical / Surgery / Neurosurgery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing te... more »xt. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Lecture II. PHLEBITIS. Pathology. -- When any morbid matter passes into the veins, there is but one means by which it can be prevented from entering the general circulation, and that is by the obstruction of'the vessels in which it is contained. The method adopted by nature in order to produce this obstruction is, under ordinary circumstances, the coagulation of the blood. In the absorbent system of vessels, morbid matters are arrested in their course towards the circulation in a different way. Every absorbent vessel conveys its contents in the first instance to a lymphatic gland, where the fluid undergoes a kind of digestion, which fits it for being received into the blood, or when such a conversion is found impossible, the morbid matter is expelled from the system by suppuration. When inflammation of a lymphatic vessel has arisen -- be it a simple or a specific inflammation -- the diseased action always pursues a course towards the gland, or to the group of glands " first in order," and there it generally terminates ; those " second in order" very rarely indeed being affected. If the absorption of vitiated fluids from a wound continue, then the noxious matter may accumulate in the lymphatic ramifications and give rise to pustules or abscesses" wherever it filters over the vast area of skin subordinate to the obstructed glands." " The inflammation and suppuration of the glands appear also to be eliminative as regards the afferent lymphatics, and the inj...« less