INFLAMMA TION. 



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in a zone about two millimeters wide, I could see with the naked 

 eye an intense brown discoloration of the cartilage. A similar 

 discoloration was present on the tibia, though much less marked. 

 In horizontal sections from the condyle of the femur I found 

 the basis-substance of the cartilage calcined around the wound, 

 and the calcined zone broadened from the surface toward the 

 bone. The calcified basis-substance appeared to be divided into 



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FIG. 154. LATERAL SURFACE OF THE CONDYLE OF THE FEMUR OF A 

 GROWN CAT, ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF INFLAMMATION. FRESH SPECI- 

 MEN. [PUBLISHED IN 1872.] 



H, hyaline cartilage in transition to F, fibrous cartilage ; C, greatly widened cavity, filled 

 with inflammatory corpuscles; B, newly formed red blood-corpuscles, sprung from L, the 

 bioplasson in a juvenile condition. Magnified 800 diameters. 



glistening, polyhedral fields of a brown color, which was more 

 intense and wide-spread on the surface of the cartilage. Many 

 of the cartilage corpuscles within the brown basis-substance 



