Excerpt from Lectures on Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, Vol. 2: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners Gentlemen, - Somewhat earlier on in my lectures, when speaking of traumatic inflammation, I stated it did not usually extend beyond the limits of the injury, and that if this sometimes appeared to be the case, it was due to the fact that we had overlooked the extent of the injury. I strongly maintain the truth of this remark. We have, however, added that very severe and progressive inflammation with sloughing may take place as the result of accidents (such as contused wounds) either immediately after the injury, or that secondary inflammations may develop even in wounds which are granulating, from causes which we also discussed. I must now point out to you that there is still another class of peculiar inflammatory and gangrenous processes, which attack wounds and lead to severe and, for the most part, pyrexial constitutional diseases. These latter may even come on without any appreciable change in the condition of the wound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.