The nature and affinities of tubercle.

  • Southey, Reginald.
Date:
1867
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    CHAPTER III. It is worth our while briefly to examine how the different opinions of the humoral school of patho- logists upon the nature of Tubercle have become indoctrinated, but more than this I dare not attempt. Sylvius de la Boe, in 1695, stated that Tubercle arose from certain glands in the lungs which resembled those of the neck and mesentery; and out of this statement sprang the lymphatic doctrine of Tubercle as it was entertained by White, Barnes, Hufeland, Schultz, Andral, and several others. The explanation, if such it can be called at all, is to all intents and purposes the same as that still offered by the humoralists of the present day; and strangely enough it is the one which mutatis mutandis is just now presented to us by the cellular pathologists. For we find Dr. Rind- fleisch of Zurich, in 18(32, regarding Tubercle as a lymphatic gland imperfectly developed, and Pro- fessor Virchow, in 1865, testifying to the lymphoid character of the tuberculous tumour. Carswell announced that he had detected tuber- culous matter in the blood, and concluded that it was simply deposited from this fluid in the tissues.