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TERMINATIONS OF INFLAMMATION. 



mediate tissue, which continually liquefies and becomes more 



and more scanty as the pro- 



liferation of the cells extends. 

 It is held that this liquefaction 

 is of a chemical nature; the 

 intermediate substance (which 

 is of a glutinous nature) be- 

 comes converted ultimately into 

 an albuminous fluid, and is ren- 

 Fig 5 -Purulent granulations from ^ered liquid. We thus see that 



the subcutaneous tissue of a rabbit round . •"■ 



about a ligature, a. Connective tissue pUS is UOt derived from auy 



corpuscles. 6 Enlargement of the cor- effusiou, but that it is formed 

 puscles, with division of the nuclei, c. . 



Division of the cells (granulations), d. by vital changCS in the gCrmS 



(vTrchowT' '^ '^' ^^' corpuscles.- ^f ^^^^ ^^g^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^ 



slight modification of the same 

 process, new connective tissue is formed. The outmost layer 



of the intercellular tissue is 

 often long preserved, whilst 



all its deeper parts are already 

 filled with pus corpuscles, 

 or are converted into an 

 abscess ; at last the surface 

 gives way, or, without giving 

 way, is directly transformed 

 into a soft diftluent mass. — 

 (VmcHow.) 



Examples op Cells. ^ ' 



Fig. Q.-a, a. Young cells, h and c. ^he pUS itself waS for- 



Connecting tissue cells ; and d. Pus cell, mcrly thought tO have Solvcnt 

 all derived from a. • , . a J_^ l -k l^ • 



properties, and that by this 

 power it was enabled to find its w^ay to the surface, but experi- 

 ments have proved this to be incorrect. Bones have been 

 placed in cavities full of pus, and left there for weeks, and 

 wdien they were afterwards weighed, they have, if anything, 

 become heavier, tlirough the absorption of fluid matters, but no 

 softening has been produced, except that caused by decomposi- 

 tion. How far the tissue is destroyed by solution chiefly de- 

 pends upon the question whether the substance that surrounds 

 the young cells becomes completely fluid. If it retains a cer- 

 tain degree of consistence, the process is confined to the pro- 

 duction of granulations, and these may as well proceed from a 



