Cell therapeutics / by William Addison.

  • Addison, William, 1802-1881.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Cell therapeutics / by William Addison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    the surgical removcal of it, the part healed in a very short time. Moreover, when a thorn enters the flesh, if it be not speedily removed, abscess and ulceration will take place in the parts around, and thus the offending body is often cast out. The wound remains until the foreign body be thrown off, but afterwards it heals spontaneously. Case.—A young lady, aged nineteen years, suffer- ing from fever, had been in bed fourteen days. At the time I visited her there was a slough upon the skin on the lower part of the back, as large as a crown-piece. It was black and dry. It adhered very firmly to the parts below, and a slight attempt to remove it produced pain and bleeding. But when a discharge of pus appeared the slough loosened and fell off spontaneously without pain or bleeding. Here there must have been severance of the bond previously uniting the dead with the living parts. The severance was concomitant with the establish- ment of granulations and purulent discharge, and it was accomplished without any loss of blood. In these, and all other examples of reparation, lymph, granulations, new blood-vessels, and pus, one or more, take part in the operation. In slight accidents B 2