Cases of cholera collected at Paris : in the month of April, 1832, in the wards of MM. Andral and Louis, at the Hospital La Pitié / by James Jackson, Jr.

  • Jackson, James, Jr., 1810-1834.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Cases of cholera collected at Paris : in the month of April, 1832, in the wards of MM. Andral and Louis, at the Hospital La Pitié / by James Jackson, Jr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    fluid, a considerable quantity of light yellow mucus, which remains adherent to the first half of the intestine and ex- ists in smaller quantity below; it is, however, easily raised from the internal surface, which is of a greyish pink color, becoming less pink towards the lower part of the organ. The mucous membrane is everywhere white in its own substance, except at intervals where it is slightly injected ; sub-mucous tissue more injected. Mu- cous membrane of its natural thickness, being rather thicker in the jejunum than in the ileum, and perhaps twice as thick in the duodenum ; giving a strip of two to five lines in the jejunum, of five to ten below, increasing towards the end of the ileum. Brunner's glands in the last half of the ileum, very distant from each other, and at first as small as a grain of mustard-seed, in the last three feet more nearly approached to each other, and as large as millet-seed. Patches of Peyer's glands seen through the whole extent of the ileum, some of them pro- jecting slightly, but distinguished only by the absence of the valvulae conniventes, and some of them by their grey- ish points ; natural. Mesenteric glands small, not livid. Large Intestines.—Rather large, containing a consid- erable quantity of a yellowish liquid, which resembles whey in its appearance, and in the two last feet has the aspect and consistence of pus. Internal surface every- where pale, except a slight lilac shade in some points. Mucous membrane of its ordinary thickness, yielding a strip of two to four lines in the caecum, about the same in the ascending and transverse colon, and from three to six below. A few glands are seen of half a line in breadth in the two last feet of the intestine. Liver of a good size, rather pale, finely granulated; containing a moderate quantity of blood and rather more easily penetrated than common. The gall-bladder con- tains a moderate quantity of a greenish liquid which is not very fluid. Spleen rather large; of a somewhat deep red color, containing several small cysts from half to a whole line