A treatise on the urethra : its diseases, especially stricture, and their cure / by Benjamin Phillips.

Date:
1832
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Credit: A treatise on the urethra : its diseases, especially stricture, and their cure / by Benjamin Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ization of these pseudo membranes is believed scarcely ever to have place, the evidence al- ready adduced establishes, as is submitted, the possibility, but the extreme rarity, of their or- ganization. When the false membrane is formed, if the inflammation diminish in intensity, we find, secreted between the membrane and the mu- cous tissue, a very liquid, greyish mucus. When the inflammation has entirely disappeared, the pseudo membrane is mobile, soft, mucous, and easily separated from the tissue upon which it is placed. The separation of the pseudo mem- brane is facilitated by the mucus secreted be- tween it and the tissue ; and when the separa- tion is completed, the alterations caused by in- flammation are effaced. Chaussier was the first to establish the truth of the separation of the false membrane as the inflammation dimi- nishes. If, says he, the inflammatory irritation cease, the parts are not slow to resume their former disposition, and the membraniform layer, which was formed at the surface, is detached and rejected entire, or in shreds, according to the action and structure of the organ (and here it may be remarked that the separation would not have place if the false membrane were organized). A contrary course, however, to this occurs in serous membranes, in which these concretions become organized, and con