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352 ESOTERIC ANTHROPOLOGY.
Inflammation may terminate spontaneously, by the
return of the part affected to its natural state ; this is
resolution. By an increase of the natural discharges,
as in catarrh, diarrhoea, dysentery, gleet, etc., and by
dropsy. By schirrus, or an indolent hardening, with
shooting pain, liable to become cancerous. By hemor
rhage in vascular parts. By metastasis, or the shifting
of the disease from one region to another. By suppu
ration, or the formation of pus. or mor
By gangrene,
tification. Inflammation of a part may
also be attended
or followed by the formation of various tumors, or mor
bid growths, both mild and malignant ; and by the
gathering of scrofulous, or other matter of disease.
In all cases, inflammation is the act of the part affect
ed. The blood is summoned to it, and retained in it.
The nervous power increases capillary action, by which
heat is evolved, and the pressure or upon, distention of,
the nerves of sensation, causes the pain. All this is
done for something. The increased flow of blood to a
part brings an increase of morbid matter, and that calls
for an increased effort to dislodge it. Calomel is washed
through the parotid glands in floods of saliva; foul mat
ter runs from the nose and air passages in an increased
flow of mucus ; it is poured through
the intestinal
glands in a diarrhoea; from the kidneys in diabetes; or,
when deeper seated, and harder to dislodge, it conies
out in purulent secretions. A sliver in the flesh is re
moved, brought to the surface, and cast out by this
process.
A full diet promotes inflammation ; because the or
ganic powers, which should be engaged in freeing the
system of its impure matter, are expended in digesting