[146] This condition of parts bore the closest analogy to the state of the cellular membrane, so constantly observed in fatal cases of phlegmonoid erysipelas, or diffuse cellular inflammation.
[147] [The student may consult, with advantage, Dr. Dewees’s chapter on Phlegmasia Dolens, in his “Treatise on the Diseases of Females,” also the observations of Dr. Mann, in the “Massachusetts Medical Communications,” vol. ii., and the interesting paper, by Professor Walter Channing, in the same work, vol. v. p. 46.—Editor.]