An essay on glandular secretion; containing an experimental enquiry into the formation of pus: and a critical examination into an opinion of Mr. John Hunter's, 'that the blood is alive!' / [James Hendy].

  • Hendy, James.
Date:
1775
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Credit: An essay on glandular secretion; containing an experimental enquiry into the formation of pus: and a critical examination into an opinion of Mr. John Hunter's, 'that the blood is alive!' / [James Hendy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vel ejufmodi quid in plague fauces injiciatur, jimulque arceatur aeris contagium, ejficitur ut pus Mud quamdiu voles fiuat ; prorfus ut hoc pafto repente exiflat emergatque nova qutfdam glandula. Contra, fi vulnus quoquo modo irritatur, nimiumve comprimitnr, liquida ex integro mutabuntur, aliamque fpeciem fe- rent, id quod chirurgi optime norunt.-- jFf/Vzc fequitur facilius ejje nihil, corporis fecretiones humorefque, z///<2 /zo- materire vel fermenti accejjione, mutata foinm vaforum fecernentium diametro nume- - rtf'll, immutenturC* G 3 Since * 4t Nothing is more common, in the writings of phyficians, than to a cribe, without helitation, tumors, difcharges, and all difeafes which yield, in any manner, to evacuations, to vitiated and corrupted fluids ; for which no other reafon can be affigned, than that they do not underhand how fluids can aflume different forms, unlefs through the intervention of fome ferment, or home other new and unufual matter. But that this point may be determined, with greater clearnefs and certainty, from the mofl familiar and common cafes that occur in the human body, let them attentively confider, for a little, the order and progrefs of the appearances of a wound, which is inflidled on any mufcular part of a found body.— Now, iirft of all, there iffues, in a full ffream, from the mouths of the yawning veflels, pure blood ; then, the