Excerpt from A Manual of Military Surgery When the parts are hard, tense and brawny, and the skin deeply congested or purple, much good may be anticipated from this measure as affording an outlet to the infiltrated fluids which, by their pressure upon the vessels, threaten strangulation and gangrene of the part. Guthrie says as soon as the inflamed part communicates the springy, fluctua ting sensation approaching, but not yet arrived at the quag miry feel alluded to, an incision should be madc'into it, ...
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Excerpt from A Manual of Military Surgery When the parts are hard, tense and brawny, and the skin deeply congested or purple, much good may be anticipated from this measure as affording an outlet to the infiltrated fluids which, by their pressure upon the vessels, threaten strangulation and gangrene of the part. Guthrie says as soon as the inflamed part communicates the springy, fluctua ting sensation approaching, but not yet arrived at the quag miry feel alluded to, an incision should be madc'into it, when the areolar or cells of the cellular tissue will be seen of abright, leaden color and of a gelatinous appearance, arising from the fluid secreted into them, being now nearly in the act of being converted into pus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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