A Clinical Lecture ON HYPERPLASIA OF BREAST TISSUES (MAZOPLASIA -- "CHRONIC MASTITIS"): Delivered before the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society

THE complete difference in histological and biological characters that definitely distinguish acute from chronic inflammation makes it difficult to understand how the term P' inflammation " can be common to both processes, until one realizes that the terms were applied when the knowledge of pathological processes was based on more slender evidence than exists at the present time. I recognize the advantages of conservatism in dealing with established terms, yet for some years I have found it imnpossible in this instance to