272 ON THE PATHOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGY OF SOME ANIMAL FLUIDS. 



But if the lips of a wound shall have been united by suture or liga- 

 ture, so that the pressure of the lips touching each other, shall at least 

 be such that it maybe equal to that of the adjacent healthy texture, then 

 the parietes of the vessels observed on the pathological surface, find as 

 equable a resistance as the other parietes of the vessels ; hence an equa- 

 ble dilatation will have an equable exudation ; and the globules of pus 

 enclosed between the fibrils of plastic lymph, will remain as long 

 as in every inflammatory boundary, viz., until they shall have been re- 

 moved by absorption. Hence no pus is collected, and the lips of the 

 wound glued together, are afterwards joined by new rivulets, aud then 

 by intermediate vessels. 



Therefore a pathological surface is the primary condition, and is in 

 the highest degree necessary for engendering the process of suppura- 

 tion ; on the other hand, the removal of the pathological surface, is the 

 one principal prop for preventing or impeding the suppurating process. 



Hence is manifest : 



1. The value of proper compression in the treatment of inflammation. 



2. The utility of blood-letting. 



3. The utility of the application of cold. 



4. The necessity of obliterating the minute vessels, for the production 



and sustaining of inflammation. 



5. The necessity of continued inflammation for the recovery of in- 



juries. 



6. The utility of all irritating and stimulating remedies, even of those 



destroying the organic texture, for the obliterating of the inter- 

 mediate vessels for this purpose, that the dilatation of their walls, 

 and the retarded circulation of the accumulated blood, exudation 

 of plastic lymph, formation of vessels and of new solid substance 

 shall follow. In a word, that inflammation, where the process of 

 inflammation is either insufficient, or shall have been entirely ex- 

 tinguished, may be sustained, or re-excited. 



The Translator thinks it proper to state, that he is in nowise answer- 

 able for Dr. Griiby's opinions. He leaves them entirely in the hands 

 of the reader, without giving any opinion of his own as to their correct- 

 ness or otherwise ; but he thinks that, to any gentleman who can spare 

 the time and have the opportunities, the various subjects alluded to by Dr. 

 Griiby, offer a very fruitful and important field for observation and study. 



