Inaugural dissertation on the effusion and organization of coagulable lymph : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation, by authority of the Very Reverend Principal Baird, and with the sanction of the Senatus Academicus / by George Stewart Newbigging.

  • Newbigging, George Stewart, -1840.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Inaugural dissertation on the effusion and organization of coagulable lymph : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules for graduation, by authority of the Very Reverend Principal Baird, and with the sanction of the Senatus Academicus / by George Stewart Newbigging. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    form the cicatrix. Were coagulable lymph not effused^ this agglutination by blood would in a short time be broken ujj, and granulation from the bottom of the wound take place in order to restore the continuity of the surface. As coagulable lymph is secreted, however, the blood is ab- sorbed, and the former becomes the seat of vascular ramifi- cation. That this tissue was the residue of the effused blood, would seem at first sight to be proved by several morbid appearances, of which those occurring in the brains of individuals who have died after apoplectic attacks are perhaps the most striking. If the brain of one who has died a few days after such an attack, be examined, the ef- fused blood will be found in a fluid state; if after the lapse of a few weeks, the blood will still be found there, but en- closed in a cyst or sac ; and if the brain be examined a considerable time subsequent to this, when the patient has recovered from the first attack, but has died of a fresh one, or some other disease, nothing can be seen but a nucleus of coagulable lymph, from which the more liquid parts appear to have been gradually absorbed. These appearances might seem to support the opinion of the fibrin of the effused blood ultimately becoming or- ganized, were it not for the observations which practical, surgeons constantly have an opportunity of making on the decided interference which the effused blood presents to the union of wounds. They find that the more completely a wound can be cleared from such superfluity, the surer are they of obtaining a favourable result in union by the first