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a dark red colour, and is more readily torn than healthy mus-
cles.
Abscess. These are frequently met with in anatomical in-
vestigations. It does not appear, when an abscess is found in
a muscle, that any part of the muscle is converted into pus,
but the fibres have the appearance of being separated from
one another, and compressed together, to make way for the
formation of the abscess, and very frequently they are ab-
sorbed. This, perhaps, accounts for the speedy filling of the
space occupied by an immense abscess in two or three days
after affording an exit to the pus: i. e. by the elastic and
compressed muscular fibres regaining their former situation.
.The sides of the abscess are not formed of muscular fibre,
but of a condensed cellular membrane, and sometimes a tunic
of coagulable lymph, in which an immense number of small
arteries are found, as is evinced by dissection, and injections.
When the latter are pushed to a great extent, and the injec-
tion is successful, small vessels are found to have shot out
here and there, so as to give the internal surface of the ab-
scess a somewhat flocculent appearance. In scrofulous ab-
scesses between muscular fibres, the coat of the abscess is
mostly much thicker than in other cases.
Gangrene. In this disease, the muscle is pulpy, black, and
fetid.
Flaccidity. This is occasionally observed to a considerable
degree. In general it depends upon a sluggish action of the
powers of life, for some time before death.
Morbid contraction. This may arise from the want of ac-
tion in the antagonists, or from some other causes. It con-
sists in a permanent contraction of the muscle to a degree
beyond its healthy contraction. It is met with principally in
the flc^<rnrof the legs of the aged.
a dark red colour, and is more readily torn than healthy mus-
cles.
Abscess. These are frequently met with in anatomical in-
vestigations. It does not appear, when an abscess is found in
a muscle, that any part of the muscle is converted into pus,
but the fibres have the appearance of being separated from
one another, and compressed together, to make way for the
formation of the abscess, and very frequently they are ab-
sorbed. This, perhaps, accounts for the speedy filling of the
space occupied by an immense abscess in two or three days
after affording an exit to the pus: i. e. by the elastic and
compressed muscular fibres regaining their former situation.
.The sides of the abscess are not formed of muscular fibre,
but of a condensed cellular membrane, and sometimes a tunic
of coagulable lymph, in which an immense number of small
arteries are found, as is evinced by dissection, and injections.
When the latter are pushed to a great extent, and the injec-
tion is successful, small vessels are found to have shot out
here and there, so as to give the internal surface of the ab-
scess a somewhat flocculent appearance. In scrofulous ab-
scesses between muscular fibres, the coat of the abscess is
mostly much thicker than in other cases.
Gangrene. In this disease, the muscle is pulpy, black, and
fetid.
Flaccidity. This is occasionally observed to a considerable
degree. In general it depends upon a sluggish action of the
powers of life, for some time before death.
Morbid contraction. This may arise from the want of ac-
tion in the antagonists, or from some other causes. It con-
sists in a permanent contraction of the muscle to a degree
beyond its healthy contraction. It is met with principally in
the flc^<rnrof the legs of the aged.