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Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected With Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics, V. 3 1894 (v. 3)
Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected With Medicine Surgery and Obstetrics V 3 1894 - v. 3 Author:Richard von Volkmann Volume: v. 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: The New Sydenham Society Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-... more »Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ON THE HEALING-IN OF FOREIGN BODIES. De. FRITZ A. SALZER, Professor op Surgery At The University Of Utrecht. Translated from the German by FEED. ADALBERT JUNKER VON LANGEGG, M. D., M. R. C. S., Engd. ON THE HEALING-IN OF FOREIGN BODIES. Foreign bodies which have gained an entrance into the human organism call forth disturbances and alterations which, in the first place, depend essentially on the locality, that is, the organ concerned, or in other words, on the kind of injury ; in the second place, on the nature of the foreign body. As in the following we shall especially consider the reaction of the organism against these foreign bodies with regard to their physical condition, but without reference to the danger of the injury itself, we shall have, in a more restricted sense, to distinguish between the effects of unclean foreign bodies (as we call. for the sake of brevity, those which do not carry with them pathogenic germs), and of clean foreign bodies acting either mechanically or chemically. The former, i. e., the unclean foreign bodies, have been considered from the oldest times as the deplorable cause of the interest and the treatment in every kind of retention of foreign bodies. The belief in the danger from foreign bodies is mostly based on the experience of the injurious consequences of this first-mentioned kind. At present, however, both the estimate of the case and its treatment begin more and more to agree that these represent merely a fraction of the foreign bodies which come under observation, although already in former t...« less