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Excerpt from A Study of Experimental Pneumonitis in the Rabbit: Induced by the Intratracheal Injection of Dead Tubercle Bacilli
A great deal of the morphological complexity of the lesions of the lungs in both acute and chronic tuberculosis is due to inflammatory processes which do not present the characteristic features of tubercular inflammation. When we have taken account of the miliary tubercles, both single and conglomerated, of the larger and smaller masses of epithelioid - cell growth which we call diffuse tubercle tis sue, and of the various aggregates of these - often in.a con dition of more or less advanced coagulation necrosis when we have further brought into line that series of more or less extensive inflammatory consolidation of the lungs in which, without the development of characteristic tubercle tissue, coagulation necrosis and often disintegration of both lung and exudate occur, under the influence of the living growing tubercle bacillus - there still remains a series of intra-alveolar inflammatory exudations about and among the more characteristic tubercular areas Whose cause and origin are not sufficiently understood. These exudations are sometimes fibrinous, sometimes epithelioid in character; sometimes they are largely composed of small spheroidal cells or, which is more frequently the case, all three forms of exudate are intermingled. No doubt a double infection sometimes occurs, so that associated with the lesions directly induced by the tubercle4: experimental pneumonitis IN the rabbit. 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.
