134 ON THE COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD 
sanguinis filtered by Miiller from its corpuscles, the injured vessels acting upon 
the blood like the filter. 
This view of the condition of intensely inflamed parts is exactly that to 
which I was led some years ago by a microscopic investigation, the results of 
which were detailed in a paper that received the honour of a place in the 
Philosophical Transactions... It was there shown, as I think I may venture to 
say, that the tissues generally are capable of being reduced under the action 
of irritants to a state quite distinct from death, but in which they are never- 
theless temporarily deprived of all vital power, and that inflammatory con- 
gestion is due to the blood-corpuscles acquiring adhesiveness such as they have 
outside the body, in consequence of the irritated tissues acting towards them 
like ordinary solids. 
I cannot avoid expressing my satisfaction that this inquiry into the coagu- 
lation of the blood has furnished independent confirmation of my previous 
conclusions regarding the nature of inflammation. 
* «On the Early Stages of Inflammation,’ Phi/. Tvans., 1858 (p. 209 of this volume). 
