Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, Volume 35Longmans, Green and Company, 1852 |
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Page 266 - ... that of Dr. Budd, whose views expressed the opinion ordinarily received, but from which the author in some degree dissented. The author believed that an unhealthy nutritive process was the essence of cirrhosis, and might be developed in one of three situations. 1. In the larger and moderatesized portal canals, excluding only the smallest. 2. In these last and in the fissures. 3. In the smaller canals and fissures, and in the substance of the lobules. The first form produced common hobnail liver;...
Page 288 - The pleurae were adherent in places; the lungs oedematous, and in places solidified by compact greyish-white masses, such as might result from uncured pneumonia. The pulmonary vessels were free from old coagula. The liver and intestinal canal were healthy. The spleen was large, pale, and soft. One large portion, about a fourth of the organ, was converted into a mass of firm, yellowish white, cheesy substance.
Page 394 - In the first instance, the leucorrhoeal discharge consists of nothing more than an unusual quantity of the elements found in the healthy mucus of the cervix. Quantities of mucous corpuscles and oily particles, with particles of epithelium entangled in the viscid alkaline plasma, which gives the mucus its clearness and consistence, are found. The mucus is seen at the os uteri, extending, in the form of a string, through the vagina to the os externum, and also adhering to the walls of the vagina in...
Page 326 - ... 2dly, that if detached and transmitted in large masses, they may suddenly block up a large artery, and so cut off the supply of blood to an important part ; if in smaller masses, they may be arrested in vessels of much less size, and give rise to various morbid appearances in internal organs ; while, under other circumstances, the particles mingled with the blood may be extremely minute, possibly the debris of softened...
Page 273 - Pettenköffer's test decided against the presence of any organic biliary acid The deep colour of the urine in jaundice depended on the presence of bile pigment solely ; no trace of cholic acid was discoverable. The author considered the majority of cases of jaundice to depend on the absorption into the blood, not of completely formed bile, but of one of its constituents only, the yellow pigment ; and this might take place in one of three ways : 1. By a mechanical obstruction to the flow of bile into...
Page 284 - ... the valves, and conveyed with the circulating blood, until arrested within some arterial canal, which might thus become completely plugged up, and the supply of blood to an important part be suddenly cut off. from which serious if not fatal results would ensue ; or, smaller masses might be detached, and pass on into arteries of much less size, or even into the capillaries, whence congestion, followed by stagnation and coagulation of the blood, and all the consequent changes such coagulated blood...
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Page 376 - That, at this period (resolution), the serum of the blood is found to contain a greater amount of chloride than in health.
Page 287 - She continued speechless and hemiplegic, but without loss of consciousness, for five days, when she quietly died. On examining the body, six hours after death, the skull and dura mater were found natural; but the small vessels of the pia mater were much congested, the congestion amounting, in some places, almost to ecchymoses. The right corpus striatum was softened to an extreme degree, being reduced to a complete pulp of a dirty grayish-white tint, and without any remains of its characteristic striated...
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