The Nature of Reparatory Inflammation in Arteries After Ligature, Acupressure, and Torsion (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... cerning the organization of the blood, there has at no time been a unanimity of opinion among the investigators whose labors have furnished the most important observations bearing upon the process of healing after wounds of bloodvessels, and that no less than four of the latest publications which have been furnished by the pens of most distinguished pathologists directly contradict the assumption of Billroth and Rindfleisch concerning the activity of the wandering cells in the organization of thrombi. In commencing the relation of our own personal observations, perhaps it may be proper to state at the outset that the conclusions which we believe to be legitimate deductions from the facts which shall be reported are, in many important points, at variance with some opinions generally admitted by the scientific world to be well established. If these deductions shall stand irrefuted it will become necessary to modify greatly the present prevalent opinions concerning the nature of inflammation. It is not our intention, however, upon this occasion, to discuss the nature of inflammation in general. The question of inflammation will be raised only by indirection, and will be limited to the inflammatory processes as they are seen in wounded arteries. It is by "the light of pathological histology alone that we propose to examine to-night " The Nature of Reparatory Inflammation in Arteries after Ligature, Acupressure, and Torsion." Just here let it be premised that if our conclusions are not in accord with views considered as established, it cannot be charged by the defenders of the latter that our investigation has been undertaken or conducted with an unfavorable bias. Until the completion of our experimental study of ligation, no authorities upon the pathological ...