Produced by Thiers Halliwell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s notes: Apart from correction of a few typographic errors (intentention → intention, citrinc → citrine, scropulous → scrophulous), the text of this e-book has been preserved in its original form including archaic language and some inconsistent spelling (citrine/cintrine, schirrous/schirrus, exsudation/exudation, eschoritics/escharotics). Footnotes have been numbered and positioned below the relevant paragraphs. DISSERTATIONS ON _INFLAMMATION_. VOLUME II. CONTAINING, DISSERT. II. continued.--ON THE CURE OF SIMPLE INFLAMMATION, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. DISSERT. III.--ON THE PHAGEDENIC, AND SOME OTHER SPECIES OF INFLAMMATION. DISSERT. IV.--ON THE SPONGOID INFLAMMATION. DISSERT. V.--ON THE SCROPHULOUS INFLAMMATION. DISSERT. VI.--ON THE CANCEROUS INFLAMMATION. BY JOHN BURNS, _SURGEON IN GLASGOW_. GLASGOW: _Printed by James Mundell, Aytoun Court_, FOR JOHN MURDOCH, TRONGATE; MUNDELL AND SON, AND W. MUDIE, EDINBURGH; AND FOR LONGMAN AND REES, and J. JOHNSON, LONDON. 1800. DISSERTATIONS ON _INFLAMMATION_. DISSERTATION II. CONTINUED. ON SIMPLE INFLAMMATION, _And its Consequences_. _Of the Cure of Inflammation._ In attempting the cure of inflammation, or its consequences, we must naturally be directed to the means of removal, by the nature of the action itself, and the object which we have in view. The treatment of the inflammatory action may be considered in two points of view; first, as this action consists in peculiar changes of the natural action, which changes we wish to remove; and, secondly, as this action naturally tends to disappear, and produce other actions, which require a peculiar treatment. The observations, therefore, which are to be made upon the method of cure, may be arranged under the heads of the different terminations of inflammation. _Of the Treatment necessary to procure Resolution._ In the treatment of most wounds, our chief intention is to prevent the accession of inflammation, and procure adhesion, which is, in one respect, analogous to resolution. When inflammation has taken place, either in wounds, or in other cases, our great object is, to remove or lessen it as quickly as possible, which we effect, first, by removing the exciting causes of inflammation, or such causes as tend to increase the action; and, secondly, by applying such remedies as tend directly to abate the inflammatory action.