This issue of inflammation is contingent upon previous exudation, and consists in resorption of the products. It takes place with greater or less facility, according to the measure of the exudation, and to its degree of solidification. It succeeds either completely or incompletely, and hereupon it depends, whether in the sequel the diseased organ recovers its normal condition altogether, or only partially and imperfectly.

Fluid exudates are naturally susceptible of resorption.

Solid exudates become adapted for resorption by preliminary solution, - corrosion through blood-serum, - or else by disintegration, with various changes in their chemical composition.

Elementary bodies must be previously dissolved, in order to become adapted for resorption, which process takes place both through the bloodvessels and the lymphatics.

The consequences of resorption differ with the primitive quality of the exudate, with the mode of its preliminary solution and of its chemical transformation, and with the quantity reabsorbed. Finally they differ accordingly as the resorption takes place chiefly through the lymphatics or directly into the sanguineous current.

In this issue of inflammation is comprehended wasting of the textures through inflammation. It consists in the elements of the textures being themselves liable to become reabsorbed along with the products of inflammation. This is owing to the textural elements, within the range of inflammation, becoming functionally disabled by mechanical pressure, to the impediment to their nutrition offered by the effusion; the result being the dissolution and resorption of those elements. This termination is especially frequent in delicate, vulnerable textures, in very copious effusion, and where the latter, being solidified, is susceptible only of very tardy resorption. In this manner is the substance of the brain, of muscle, of kidney, and the like, destroyed within the range of inflammation, its place becoming occupied by a cavity, or by multilocular cavities bounded by scar texture. Where these are small and numerous, they beget a loosening, a rarefaction of the textures, as, for example, in the condition termed cell-infiltration in the brain. In hollow structures, for example the Graafian vesicles, the contents, altered by the exudate and its metamorphoses, are absorbed, and the organ becomes extinct.