PHILOSOPHICAL 
TRANSACTIONS. 
I. The Croonian Lecture. On the conversion of Pus into gra- 
nulations or new Flesh. By Sir Everard Home, Bart. 
V. P. R. S. 
Read November 5, 1818. 
As this Lecture was instituted with a view to discover the 
principle upon which muscular motion depends, which cannot 
well be done till we have acquired a more correct knowledge 
of the structure and mode of formation of muscles; I consi- 
dered that I was not greatly deviating from the direct path 
of this enquiry, in making the changes extravasated blood 
undergoes, preparatory to its being incorporated with the 
muscular and other structures of a living body, the subject of 
my last year’s Lecture. 
The present Lecture may be considered as a continuation 
of the same subject, since it is my intention to examine the 
changes pus undergoes in the formation of granulations or 
new flesh ; which will be found to correspond with those that 
were stated to take place in the blood, so nearly, that the 
two fluids will be admitted to possess the same properties;, 
and that the red colour of the globules is the. principal' 
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