This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... vascularity and its consistence, must be so produced; and, perhaps, as I have said, the red and mottled lilac colour, accompanied with a degree of turgescence in the organ, indicates a state of inflammation. 7. Sup1mration.--This proof of inflammatory action, though not very frequent, has come under ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... vascularity and its consistence, must be so produced; and, perhaps, as I have said, the red and mottled lilac colour, accompanied with a degree of turgescence in the organ, indicates a state of inflammation. 7. Sup1mration.--This proof of inflammatory action, though not very frequent, has come under my notice, in a distinct manner, two or three times. The spleen, under such circumstances, is apt to contract adhesions with neighbouring viscera, and either form a kind of shut sac by their assistance, or ulcerate through into some of the hollow viscera, as the colon or the stomach, and thus effect the discharge of the abscess without material injury to the peritoneum. 8. Gzmgrene.--This effect of inflammation is likewise occasionally found in the spleen. 9. Tubercles.--The substance of the spleen is occasionally sprinkled with genuine tubercles. They are often very regularly distributed through the whole substance, and, whether more or less frequent, seem to occupy every part equally. They are sometimes solid and hard, but very soon incline to soften at their centres, and early present the appearance of curdled matter contained in little cysts. The tubercles in the spleen are generally, but not always, accompanied by similar deposits in other organs, particularly the lungs and mesenteric glands: and the tubercular diathesis, in very young children, more frequently shows itself in the spleen than in persons of more advanced age, and seems to bear proportion rather to the disease of the glandular system, than of the lungs. (Figs. 47, 48, pp. 182 and 184.) I0. Malignant disease.--The true malignant tuber, both scirrhous and cerebriform, such as is found in the liver, is sometimes met with in the spleen, where, as in the liver, it probably...
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