On the origin of inflammation of the veins / and of the causes, consequences, and treatment of purulent deposits

ON PHLEBITIS.
—— Whose effect
Holds such an enmity with blood of man,
That, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset
And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
The thin and wholesome blood.
Hamlet.
PLATE SHEWING THE FIRST MORBID APPEARANCE PRODUCED BY THE STAGNATION OF VITIATED BLOOD IN THE CAPILLARIES OF THE LUNGS.
Surface of Lung with Pleura removed Section of Lung
BY HENRY LEE, F.R.C.S. ASSISTANT SURGEON TO KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, ETC.
There is more to be learnt of the use of the blood in the animal economy from its coagulation than from its fluidity. —Hunter.
LONDON: HENRY RENSHAW, 356, STRAND.