as he would a weak, debilitated one, although both may be suffering 

 from the same complaint, and show the same temperature. Our 

 great object and aim is to bring the inflammation to its most 

 favourable termination with the least destruction of tissue or life. 

 The terminations of inflammation are said to be — (i) Resolution, 

 (2) Exudation and Adhesion, (3) Effusion, (4) Suppuration, (5) Ulceration, 

 and (6) Gangrene, or Mortification (death of a part). Some writers object 

 to the phrase terminations of inflammation, and use instead the 

 words — results or effects. 



24. Resolution : Resolution means the subsidence of a morbid 

 process. Our greatest endeavour should be to get the inflammatory 

 action to this termination, as being the most satisfactory. If possible, 

 find the cause and remove it, when the effect will cease, and the 

 inflamed structures will return to their normal condition. For 

 instance, when a pin is inserted into the hand, it causes pain, 

 swelHng, heat, and redness ; but if the pin or irritant be removed in 

 time, and suitable treatment adopted, the parts resume their natural 

 healthy condition, and any exudation that may have taken place is 

 absorbed. This termination may take place suddenly or gradually. 



25. Exudation and Adhesion : By exudation is meant the oozing 

 out of adventitious matter, and adhesion is the force by which certain 

 dissimilar bodies stick together. Reparative results are obtained by 

 the organization of the exuded lymph, the formation of new blood 

 vessels, the absorption of the serous fluid, and the closing of 

 wounds, by adhesion of the cut surfaces, &c. ; but at times the result 

 of exudation and adhesion is most formidable, particularly when 

 adhesive bands are formed in serous cavities, such as the pleura, jomts, 

 and the sheaths of tendons. 



26. Effusion, or oozing of the serum of the blood into the areolar 

 tissue, results in the formation of large serous swellings or watery 

 tumours, with small pellets and fibnnous strings floating amono-st it ; 

 for instance, the swelling that arises on a young horse's shoulder from 

 a nip with a collar, or those on the front of a cow's knees, which at 

 times become very large, are due to bruises, and effusion. 



