The principles of surgery . The accompanying diagram, though both rude and fanciful, may assistto make this more plain. It will also illustrate the opinion held as tothe gradual formation of the true inflammatory crisis. The commencement, not inconsistent with healthy structure and func-tion ; its consequences usually salutary; but sometimes, by persistence,injurious. The second stage, a departure from true health, and pressingon to true disease; the consequences sometimes salutary, in local emer-gencies—as in wounds and ulcers; but, in general, prone to evil by 116 RESOLUTION—DELITESCENCE. al
The principles of surgery . The accompanying diagram, though both rude and fanciful, may assistto make this more plain. It will also illustrate the opinion held as tothe gradual formation of the true inflammatory crisis. The commencement, not inconsistent with healthy structure and func-tion ; its consequences usually salutary; but sometimes, by persistence,injurious. The second stage, a departure from true health, and pressingon to true disease; the consequences sometimes salutary, in local emer-gencies—as in wounds and ulcers; but, in general, prone to evil by 116 RESOLUTION—DELITESCENCE. alteration of both structure and function. The third stage essentiallymorbid; utterly at variance with healthy structure and function. Thehigher results, which follow the crisis by continuance of the disease, areinvariably subversive of function, and destructive of texture; and, con-sequently, are pernicious—unless when it has become essential, for thewell-being of the whole, that the part so affected shall be Health Resolution may be gradual or sudden, spontaneous or artificial, im-perfect or complete; the more early and slight the morbid change, themore likely is the resolution to be rapid, spontaneous, and perfect. When sudden, the term Delitescence is commonly employed; denotingan occurrence favorable in itself, but invariably associated, in the mindof the experienced practitioner, with a suspicious prognosis. Were thedelitescence effected simply, and there an end, the immediate benefitderived would be without alloy. But experience tells us, that the abruptand sudden disappearance of advancing inflammation in one part, isoften, if not usually, followed by the appearance of similar disorderelsewhere. And, as we have no guarantee that the change shall be toan equally harmless locality, such change must at all times be a matterof suspicion, and often Of danger. The disease, for example, may leaveone part of the skin, and suddenly appear in another portion of the
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