410 CELLULAR TISSUE. 



ever emaciated, who are entirely free from fat ; except those 

 who have been affected with anasarca. 



The cellular membrane has been already observed to form 

 granulations very promptly ; and it has been asserted that the 

 granulations, which arise from all the different parts of the 

 body when wounded, originate from the cellular membrane in 

 those parts. 



Whether this proposition be true or not, to the extent above 

 stated, it is a fact that granulations, in some instances, seem to 

 have a cellular structure ; as the following case will prove. 



A patient, with a compound fracture of the leg, which was 

 attended with a large wound, covered with luxuriant granula- 

 tions, was attacked with an cedematous swelling of the limb, 

 which increased suddenly to a great degree. While this was 

 going on, the granulations on the surface of the wound tume- 

 fied with the limb ; and, upon examination, appeared some- 

 what pellucid, with an effused fluid indenting by pressure, 

 precisely as the skin was indented. 



The cellular membrane appears to have a most intimate 

 connexion with the skin ; and cannot be completely separated 

 from it by dissection. It is said that in certain cases of disease 

 where it is reduced to a slough, while the texture of the skin 

 remains unchanged, as in some species of anthrax or carbuncle, 

 this separation may be completely effected. In such cases the 

 under surface of the skin will appear to be composed of pits 

 or excavations, which penetrate very deep into its substance, 

 and which were occupied by the cellular or adipose membrane 

 wfiile it was in its natural condition. 



