Inflammation
Subtitle: an introduction to the study of pathology
By: Being the reprint [revised and enlarged] of an article in professor Allbutt's 'System of medicine' / by J. George Adami
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1907
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Inflammation
Other titles: System of medicine
Table of contents: title: Part I. A general survey of the process of inflammation. Provisional definition ; The comparative pathology of inflammation ; The experimental production of inflammation in non-vascular areas ; The experimental production of inflammation in vascular areas ; The experimental production of suppurative inflammation ; The general reaction which may accompany inflammation ; Summary of the facts thus far brought forward; title: Part II. The factors in the inflammatory process. The part played by the leucocytes. The varieties and the classification of the leucocytes ; The same continued ; hæmatogenous and histo-haematogenous leucocytes ; Histogenous leucocytes ; Summary of properties of different forms of leucocytes ; Phagocytosis ; The humoral hypothesis ; The cellulo-humoral hypothesis ; Summary ; The inflammatory exudate. The fluid of the exudate ; The solids of the exudate ; fibrin formation ; The blood-vessels. The part played in blood-vessels ; On the passage of corpuscles out of the vessels ; The nervous system. On the part played by the nervous system ; The cells of the tissues. Degenerative changes ; Regenerative changes ; Fibrous hyperplasia and its relationship to inflammation ; Temperature changes. On the increased temperature of inflamed areas; title: Part III. General considerations. On the varieties of inflammatory manifestation ; On systemic changes consequent upon inflammation ; On the principles of treatment of the inflammatory state ; On adaptation : conclusion.