Volume 1

Observations on some of the general principles and on the particular nature and treatment of the different species of inflammation / [John Haddy James].

  • James, J. H. (John Haddy), 1788-1869.
Date:
1821
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    disposition it is to spread, we should confound with erysipelas a variety of affections of the skin, of the vascular system, g-c.; we should-have even paro- nychia gravis, whose seat is essentially beneath the skin, while erysipelas is more particularly resident in it. These and other examples are, I conceive, sufficiently strong to prove that such terms as these are liable to the very weighty objection of con- founding together diseases essentially different in nature, while, by the mode now suggested, this is, as far as I can see, entirely avoided. Secondlythe Secondly. THE DEGREE OF CONNEXION OF THE degree of con- mexion with vital organs, ORGAN WITH THE VITAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ANI- the Order. MAL, is another cause which exerts a predominant influence over the character of the inflammation; acts invariably, and ceteris paribus, in the same degree ; the. constitutional sympathy being in pro- portion to the danger, the difficulty of resisting — that danger, and of repairing the mischief done. On this principle I would form the Orders. Thirdly, the Thirdly. There is a circumstance in the history disposition to , t t ‘ ; ; ’ one mode ra Of inflammations which has hardly received a due ther than an- Ginette Ge Share of attention, but it is both sufficiently re- py markable, and very important ; namely, the origi- nal disposition to terminate in one mode rather than another: thus, in boil and whitlow, it is to