Inflammation regarded as a physiological reaction to an infecting lesion : the oration of the Hunterian Society, delivered at the London Institution, February 11th, 1885 / by F. Charlewood Turner.

  • Turner, Francis Charlewood, 1843-1900.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Inflammation regarded as a physiological reaction to an infecting lesion : the oration of the Hunterian Society, delivered at the London Institution, February 11th, 1885 / by F. Charlewood Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dust; (2) by the presence of these organisms in the dis- charge from wounds which have become inflamed; and (3) by the success of Lister’s antiseptic method^ which has been recognised as the most brilliant achievement of modern surgery. And this view is fully confirmed by the very convinc- ing clinical and experimental evidence, (1) of the phlogo- genic properties of these organisms when in active growth, and (2) of the accessibility of the deeper tissues to them, and of the constant association of their presence with suppuration. On the former point sufiicient evidence is afforded, (1) by the results of inoculation experiments on animals; such especially as those of Professor Ogston, in which abscesses were produced by the subcutaneous injection of small quantities of pus from acute abscesses, and of albumen from eggs, in which a pure cultivation of micro- cocci from a similar source had been obtained by the ingenious method devised by him; (2) by the results of Chauveau’s experiments on animals subjected to the operation of bistournage of the testes, an operation em- ployed in France to cause atrophy of these organs through occlusion of the spermatic artery by torsion of the cord, and effected without wounding the skin. In these experiments he found that the intravenous injection, shortly before operating, of a sufficient quantity of the fluid part of diluted pus from an acute abscess, in which there were no solid particles to obstruct the vessels, but abundant micrococci, caused suppuration in the scrotum; while no effect was observed to follow the injection of an equal quantity of the same fluid after the organisms had been removed by filtration through porcelain; results