The Medico-Chirurgical Review Volume 25 (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. 1834 Excerpt: ...it certainly was not because Dr. Wise had published "a note"--the change in question had been previously far better described by M. Ribes. "The note" is entitled "Remarks on some of the Phenomena of Inflammation, as they appear on Dissection;" the subject is the proximate cause of Inflammation, in which a principal part is given to the capillary veins. When a vein inflames after bleeding, it is "plugged up by consolidated blood some distance above and below the wounded part." "Such a consolidation of blood appears to be a constant effect of a certain degree of inflammation in the branches of veins; and, as the structure and contents of these vessels seem to be the same, may I not be allowed to infer that the same cause will produce the same effect, and that, therefore, a like consolidation of blood takes place in the capillary veins?" Such is Dr. Wise's language. Now let us turn to what was written and published two years previously in a paper entitled, "Expose succinct des Recherches faites sur la Phlebite, par M. F. Ribes, Revue Mcdicale, 18-25." After stating that in one stage or degree of inflammation the vein may be lined by a false membrane, or that it may be filled with pus, he proceeds "mais quelquefois la veine legerement cnflamme'e se laisse dilater et distendu par le sang. Ce vaisseau etant malade, ne peut que difficilement, reagir sur le fluide qu'il contient, le sang y stagne, s'y arrete, s'y coagule, se durcit, se disseche, adhere fortiment et fait, corps avec la veine, alors la membre est plus en moins entire." P. 11. And two pages farther on, M. Ribes endeavours to shew that the veins are inflamed in erysipelas, which he represents to be essentially seated in the capillary...