O THE TOXER LECTURES. 



wliicli are common to the soft parts in general, but the mcm- 

 brauous lining of thobe vessels is peculiarly susceptible of 

 inflammation. 



Bouillaud (Archives Ge'uerales, 1824, s^ie vi., tome 5) main- 

 taiucd the organization of the thrombus and its adhesion to 

 the walls of the vessel, as also did Ribes (Revue Medicale 

 rran§aise et Etrangere, 1825, tome 3), as well as Roche and 

 Sanson (Nouveaux Elements de Pathologic. Medico-Chirui-gi- 

 cale, Paris, 182G;. 



Scarpa (Memoria sulla ligatura .della principali arteori, 

 edizione 1825) Las occasionally observed, two or three days 

 after the application of the ligature, the adhesion of the walls 

 without the intervention of a clot. 



Gendrin (Histoire Anatomique des Inflammations, 1826, 

 tome ii.) perhaps deserves mention here, since a theory- re- 

 specting the mode of formation of lymph in inflamed vessels 

 had derived much of its support from an often-cited experi- 

 ment which he reported. He claimed that the inner coat of 

 veins affords a concrete layer of lymph which obliterates the 

 vascular canal. 



Ebel (De natura medicatrice sicnbi ai-terite vulneratse et 

 ligatfe fnerunt, Guersa, 1826) denied that the internal coagu- 

 lum takes any part in the organizing process, and affirmed his 

 belief in its disorganization and disappearance. 



Cruveilhier (Anatomic Pathologique, 1829) spoke of the dis- 

 appearance of the thrombus by absorption 



The next great communication on the subject of hemor- 

 rhage came from M. Amusat (On a new method of arresting 

 hemorrhage from large vessels without the aid of the liga- 

 ture. Academic Royale de Medecine, 1829). The conception 

 of this new method was first suggested to his mind by the 

 long-recognized fact that torn wounds do not bleed. The 

 development of this suggestion was worked out by experi- 

 ments upon animals. The perfected plan was applied upon 



