A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 1

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GENERAL MORBID PROCESSES.¹

INFLAMMATION; THROMBOSIS AND EMBOLISM; EFFUSIONS; DEGENERATIONS; TUBERCULOSIS; MORBID GROWTHS.
BY REGINALD H. FITZ, M.D.

¹ In the preparation of this subject full and free use has been made of the following works: Die Cellular Pathologie, Virchow, 4te Auflage, Berlin, 1871; Handbuch der Allgemeinen Pathologie, Uhle und Wagner, 7te Auflage, Leipzig, 1876; Handbuch der Allgemeinen Pathologie als Pathologische Physiologie, Samuel, Stuttgart, 1879; Vorlesungen über Allgemeine Pathologie, Cohnheim, 2te Auflage, Berlin, 1882; Lehrbuch der Pathologischen Anatomie, Birch-Hirschfeld, 2te Auflage, 1er Band, Leipzig, 1882; Lehrbuch der Allgemeinen und Speciellen Pathologischen Anatomie, Ziegler, 1er und 2er Theil, Jena, 1882 and 1883.

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GENERAL MORBID PROCESSES.

Disease is to be regarded as representing the result of a series of processes called morbid or pathological, from the fact that they are manifested by disturbances in the organism.

The processes concerned are the same in kind as those essential to health, but they are modified in time, place, or quantity.

Morbid processes, therefore, are to be considered as modified physiological processes tending to cause disease.