 A spasm of the extreme arteries, supporting an increased action in the course of them, may therefore be considered as the proximate cause of inflammation ; at least, in all cases not arising from direct stimuli applied ; and even in this case the stimuli...  First Lines of the Practice of Physic - Page 162by William Cullen - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William Percivall - 1834 - 356 pages
...vessels, and not the blood, were in fault. " The cause of obstruction," says this learned writer," is spasm of the extreme arteries supporting an increased action in the course of them." So far as distention or swelling is concerned, spasm is a condition quite opposed to it, and one that... | |
 | Richard Bright, Thomas Addison - Medicine - 1839 - 648 pages
...conclusion that " a spasm of the extreme arteries support" ing an increased action in the course of them may be " considered as the proximate cause of inflammation,...supposed to " produce a spasm of the extreme vessels." More recently, the chief dispute amongst pathologists has been whether the action of the arteries of... | |
 | Maximilian Joseph Chelius - 1845 - 128 pages
...action of dilatation." (p. 282.) (7) This is pretty nearly the opinion of Dr. CULLEN, who taught that spasm of the extreme arteries supporting an increased action in the course of them, may be considered as the proximate cause of inflammation, at least in all cases not arising from direct... | |
 | Maximilian Joseph Chelius - 1847 - 1008 pages
...of the eitreme arteries supporting an increased action in the course of them, may be considered ч the proximate cause of inflammation, at least in all...supposed to produce a spasm of the extreme vessels. The following is a brief account of Dr. JOHN THOMSON'S (a) observations on the variation of the current... | |
 | Calvin Newton - 1854 - 704 pages
...Cullen maintaining the theory, that, in inflammation, there is an obstruction of the blood, produced by "spasm of the extreme arteries, supporting an increased action in the course of them." Hunter, who was nearly contemporary with Cullen, supposed, that, when inflammation exists, there is... | |
 | Calvin Newton, Marshall Calkins - Chest - 1854 - 460 pages
...maintaining the theory, that, in inflammation, there is an obstruction of the blood, produced by '; spasm of the extreme arteries, supporting an increased action in the course of them." Hunter, who was nearly contemporary with Cullen, supposed, that, when inflammation exists, there is... | |
 | George Bacon Wood - 1855 - 878 pages
...differ in relation to the precise nature of that action. Oullen imagined the existence of spasm in the extreme arteries, supporting an increased action in the course of them, and thus giving rise to the phenomena of inflammation. But it need scarcely be observed that his opinion... | |
 | John Thomson - 1859 - 808 pages
...of the phenomena of the animal economy, healthy and morbid, on the living solids, he conceived that a spasm of the extreme arteries, supporting an increased action in the course of them, may be considered as the proximate cause of this state. His doctrine on this subject may be regarded as... | |
 | John O'Reilly - 1861 - 248 pages
...the small vessels, and thus plugged them up. This circumstance was termed an error loci. (CULLEN.) "A spasm of the extreme arteries supporting an increased...supposed to produce a spasm of the extreme vessels." (JOHN HUNTER.) " The act of inflammation is to be considered as an increased action of the vessels,... | |
 | Medicine - 1880 - 396 pages
...capillary vessels, and of Cullen, founded on those of the last three physicians, that it proceeded from spasm of the extreme arteries supporting an increased action in the course of them, had generally been replaced by the views of Syme, who maintained that redness and swelling ought to... | |
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