Principles and Practice of Surgery |
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Author:
| Syme, James |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-79224-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $47.98 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. MORTIFICATION. SYMPTOMS OF MOBTIF I C A T ION . When inflammation, instead of terminating in a return to the natural action, goes on to the destruction of the part concerned, it is said to terminate in Mortification. In this case, the part is not only deprived of sensation and voluntary motion,...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. MORTIFICATION. SYMPTOMS OF MOBTIF I C A T ION . When inflammation, instead of terminating in a return to the natural action, goes on to the destruction of the part concerned, it is said to terminate in Mortification. In this case, the part is not only deprived of sensation and voluntary motion, but is completely divested of all vital properties, so that no opposition being any longer presented to the exercise of chemical attraction, putrefactive decomposition at once commences. The appearance of a mortified part varies with its structure, just as happens in putrefaction. The soft, juicy tissues suffer most alteration, and the hard, fibrous ones least. The former are reduced at once to the state of a fetid pulp, while the latter retain their distinctive characters for a much longer time. Another circumstance that affects the appearance of a mortified part, is the degree of action which has preceded its death, since the softness and fetor will, of course, be greater if much fluid has been accumulated previously. This has led to a division of mortification into moist and diy, which is nearly equivalent to acute and chronic. These terms have also been employed to express the difference which depends upon the disease being of internal or external origin; in other words, spontaneous, or the result of injury. The symptoms of mortification may be divided into those which precede its accomplishment, those exhibited by the mortified part, and those of the system which attend the local changes. The symptoms that precede acute mortification are, generally speaking, those indicative of intense inflammation. The redness is bright and fiery, the pain hot and burning, and the swelling tense. As mortification approaches, the swelling, though it may rather increase in exten...