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A PROTECTIVE MECHANISM

VALY MENKIN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1931;48(2):249-261.

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Although most pathologists are agreed as to the general character of inflammation, various definitions of this fundamental pathologic process have been offered. Some define inflammation merely as the reaction of tissues to injury. Others, following the lead of Cohnheim, define it as the reaction affecting specifically the wall of blood vessels after injury, i. e., the increased permeability that allows the escape of plasma and blood corpuscles into the surrounding tissue. By some, notably Cohnheim¹ and Adami,² inflammation is viewed as a process adapted to reduce the harmful consequences of an injury; Metchnikoff, Marchand, and Councilman regarded it solely as a reaction excited by the presence of something injurious to the tissue. Opie³ defined it as a process by means of which cells and serum accumulate about an injurious substance and tend to remove or destroy it. In the course of this presentation, an attempt will be . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Pathology of the Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Nov. 21, 1930.

A part of this study was performed under a fellowship in medicine from the National Research Council.

A part of this discussion was presented before the Biological Seminar of Princeton University, March 14, 1930.

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