72 OP THE CELLULAR SYSTEM. 



ft. Into those of the external, and those of the internet, 

 organs. 



Q. What steps does a wound take from its formation 

 to its cicatrization? 



ft. Inflammation, granulation, suppuration, depression 

 of surface, formation of pellicle at first red, then white. 



Q. What purposes does inflammation secure to a wound? 



A. By it the organic sensibility of the cellular texture 

 is raised to animal sensibility; and the insensible organic 

 contractility is so exalted, that these together excite the 

 reproductive powers of the texture, in the form of granu- 

 lations. 



Q. What are granulations? 



ft. Not fleshy tubercles, but small cellular vesicles fill- 

 ed with a thick lardaceous substance. 



Q. What is the provisional pellicle covering granula- 

 tions? 



ft. That which prevents the contact of air while the 

 permanent cicatrix is forming. 



Q. What are the evidences of the cellular nature of 

 granulations, and of the pellicle that covers them ? 



ft. As granulations are the same in every texture, and 

 as the cellular tissue is the only one common to all the 

 organs, it is inferred that they are cellular; again, where 

 the cellular texture is most abundant, granulations form 

 most readily; when the cellular texture is removed, the 

 difficulty of reproduction is great; maceration of the gra- 

 nulating surface of a wound exposes this textural base. 



Q. Then granulations are not elongated vessels? 



ft. No; they are cellular elongations; for the cellular 

 texture alone is capable of self-extension, increase and re- 

 production. 





