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continuity of tissue. Phlegmonous inflammation indicates 

 the idiopathic; the spread of carcinoma, the continuous; 

 and serous effusion from organic disease, the sympto- 

 matic. 



Q. What are the symptoms of phlegmon? 



ft. Swelling, redness, pain, induration, heat, pulsation ; 

 sometimes general and gastric symptoms. 



Q. How does phlegmon terminate? 



ft. In resolution, most frequently in suppuration, in 

 chronic inflammation of the cellular texture, with or with- 

 out serous effusion, and in gangrene. 



Q. Is pus at once immediately deposited in the cavity 

 of an abscess ? 



ft. It is first formed in little cells, which, gradually 

 communicating, form the cavity of an abscess. 



Q. What do you mean by carbuncle? 



ft. A tumour having its seat in the sub-cutaneous cel- 

 lular texture. 



Q. What are the distinguishing symptoms of car- 

 buncle? 



ft. A liyid colour, greater hardness than phlegmon, 

 phlyctense appear on its surface, the skin is gangrenous, 

 the discharge is ichorous, the pain is peculiarly hot, the 

 general strength of the patient is much reduced. 



Q. Does carbuncle depend alone on the intensity of the 

 inflammation? 



ft. It does not ; there is a poisonous cause, or specific 

 one, concerned in the production of anthrax. 

 - Q. There is a recent speculation as to the cause of the 

 eschar in carbuncle, what is it? 



*ft. It is that the portion of cellular texture composing 

 the eschar, is in an incarcerated, or strangulated condition 



