274 DIFFUSED OR GENERAL INFLAMMATION. 



the unhealthy description, in the majority of tumors, as well 

 as in all sinuses or pipes ; which last throw out a sticky glary 

 fluid, very unlike healthy pus. 



When the inflammation has lasted a longer or shorter time 

 it terminates ; and the terminations to inflammation are six : 

 namely, resolution, adhesion, suppuration, eff*usion, gangrene, 

 and mortiflcation or death ; omitting all mention of ulceration 

 and sloughing, neither of which can terminate inflammation, 

 though both are recorded as performing such an office. 



Resolution occurs after diffused or general inflammation, 

 and means when the diseased condition is resolved, or cleared 

 away or ended. This, of all terminations, is the one most 

 to be desired, as it restores the body to a state of health. 



Adhesion is when a wound has been inflicted, and the 

 bleeding having ceased, the divided surfaces is then sticky. 

 If brought together in this state they adhere, or are glued 

 firmly together. This adhesion takes place through the 

 fibrine thrown out by the divided vessels. This fibrine is 

 glutinous in its nature, and will hold the parts together 

 until the vessels penetrate its substance, and it becomes a 

 part of the living body, or is converted into cellular tissue. 

 There are also internal adhesions, which are by no means 

 so desirable as that just referred to. 



Suppuration ensues upon all torn wounds, or when the 

 flesh is bruised as well as cut. Suppuration may throw oflf 

 a portion, the integrity of which is perfectly destroyed ; or 

 it may proceed, and gradually fill up a cavity by means of 

 granulations, which are little bodies of a highly sensitive 

 and vascular nature secreting pus. The suppuration may 

 take place into a kind of bag, or closed sac, when an abscess 

 results. The commencement of suppuration is attended 

 with much pain, and pus appears to he sent forth after 

 much labour, or at vast expense to the system. 



Effusion is when the inflamed part takes on the process 

 of throwing out fluid, and is seen in dropsy, within internal 

 cavities. 



Gangrene occurs when the vitality is nearly conquered 

 in a part; and this termination affords the latest, though it is 

 a very desperate chance to the veterinary surgeon ; for if it 

 goes on but one stage further, the structure is broken up, 

 vitality is lost, and mortification with death ensues. 



