. The principles of surgery . process, giving no pain, and producing neither swelling nor any markedsymptom. Such disease, in its commencing stages, is probably not un-common ; although in the course of its progress it generally leads to theaffection of other tissues besides that originally involved. An extensive series of experiments on the lower animals has given, inDr. Redferns hands, results so similar to those of the observations inthe human subject, as to entitle the latter to increased confidence. Itappears that all sorts of injuries inflicted upon the cartilages (whetherthose of the jo
. The principles of surgery . process, giving no pain, and producing neither swelling nor any markedsymptom. Such disease, in its commencing stages, is probably not un-common ; although in the course of its progress it generally leads to theaffection of other tissues besides that originally involved. An extensive series of experiments on the lower animals has given, inDr. Redferns hands, results so similar to those of the observations inthe human subject, as to entitle the latter to increased confidence. Itappears that all sorts of injuries inflicted upon the cartilages (whetherthose of the joints, or the costal cartilages) produce the same changes inthe hyaline matrix, and in the cells, as have been above described; andthat after periods of from one to several weeks, or even months, repairmay be established; the fibrous tissue formed by the splitting of thematrix, and discharge of the corpuscles, taking the place of the destroyedcartilage. This is evidently the same process as takes place in diseasedjoints. These
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