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tient is young and robust, the cellular tissue can be repro- 

 duced with all its properties. The inflammation of the cellu- 

 lar tissue sometimes continues for an indefinite period, so 

 that it remains hard and impermeable : this constitutes in- 

 duration. This state is found in the callosities of ulcers and 

 fistulas, which are evident results of a chronic inflammation of 

 the cellular tissue. The Barbadoes disease,a species of elephan- 

 tiasis, presents similar characters of induration. 



New-born children are subject to an induration of the cel- 

 lular tissue, in which the inflammatory character is not found: 

 this induration is observed under the skin, and sometimes in 

 the spaces between the muscles. It is according to the ob- 

 servations of M. Breschet, merely a secondary phenomenon 

 of the imperfect closure of the foramen ovale, or of a defec- 

 tive or imperfect respiration. 



Air may pass into the cellular tissue; this constitutes em- 

 physema. When the patient does not die from this accident, 

 the rarified air escapes through the incisions made for that pur- 

 pose, or through the wounds that may have previously existed, 

 or it may combine with the fluids found in the cellular tissue, 

 and disappear by absorption. Leucophlegmatis or anasarca, 

 consists of an accumulation of serum in the cellular tissue. In 

 ecchymosis,thecellular tissue contains blood dispersed through 

 its areolas. All the organic fluids may pass accidentally into 

 this tissue, in which, when they are of an excrementitial na- 

 ture, they occasion inflammations more or less violent. 



Solid foreign bodies, introduced into the cellular tissue, do 

 not, commonly, remain long in the same place, but like pus, 

 are generally carried to the surface, and if they are heavy, par- 

 tially obeying the laws of gravition. It is very evident, that it 

 is not by traversing pretended cells, that these bodies travel 

 thus across and through the cellular tissue. The latter pre- 

 sents around them, three distinct phenomena: it secretes pus 

 around their surfaces, it re-unites and re-assumes its softness 

 and permeability behind, and ulcerates before them. Here, then, 

 we find three of the kinds of inflammation admitted by John 

 Hunter, viz: Jthe adhesive, suppurative, and ulcerative : the 

 ensemble of these phenomena has received the name of eli- 

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