General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3)Bichat, Xavier
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General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Bichat, Xavier
Human anatomy; Human physiology
The cellular exhalants frequently pour out blood in the cells. 1st.
This phenomenon is often very evident in phlegmon or in other similar
tumours. By cutting into them, in the dead body, we find blood
extravasated in the cells; this is so true, that some authors have made
the nature of inflammation consist in this extravasation. But in slight
phlegmonous inflammation, the blood undoubtedly remains in the cellular
capillary system; it is only in those cases where the inflammation
is very great, that this passage takes place. 2d. As to the passive
hemorrhages of the cellular texture, who does not know that oftentimes
the water in dropsies is reddish? who does not know, that in scurvy,
considerable portions of the cellular texture are infiltrated with
blood, which has certainly not been poured out by erosion? I injected
not long since two subjects, with very evident scorbutic spots on the
legs, and there was no kind of extravasation in them; there would have
been if the rupture of the vessels produced these spots. As these
things did not arrest my attention particularly in former years, I did
not pay much attention to many subjects that I have injected with these
scorbutic spots. I do not think that they would ever have presented
cellular effusions, which would undoubtedly have struck me if they were
there, when I dissected bodies for the students.
As to the hemorrhages of the medullary exhalants, we are ignorant of
them. I have never seen in examinations of dead bodies, blood effused
in the articulations, except from wounds, &c.
As to the nutritive exhalants, it is evident that every sanguineous
exhalation is foreign to them.
_Preternatural Exhalations, not Sanguineous._
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