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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    which becomes brighter in the transverse, disappearing at its end, and re-appearing to the highest degree in the descending colon and rectum ; mucous membrane much softened in its whole extent, and exhaling a very foetid odor. Liver red externally and internally; of good con- sistence. Gall-bladder distended by a very dark-colored bile. Spleen, five inches long, two broad, one half thick; red internally ; of good consistence. Kidneys healthy ; no liquid in infundibula. Bladder small, contracted, containing none of usual white material. Uterus natural. Ovaries—slight effusion of blood into the right, and a serous cyst of the size of a small orange in the left. Thorax. (Esophagus, Larynx, both natural. Lungs;—very small tuberculous mass at summit of left lung, and two or three other small masses at summit of lower lobe of right, in both surrounded by a pale and crepitant tissue ; posteriorly both lungs were somewhat engorged. Heart. Pericardium contains § i. of reddish serum; appearance of concentric hypertrophy of left ventricle; tissue of heart of a pale red, firm consistence ; one soft, white, infiltrated coagulum in right auricle ; liquid blood in small quantity in the other cavities; a second coagu- lum in the left auricle ; the aorta contains a black liquid blood with a few very small white coagula—its internal surface is white. Head. Veins of dura mater moderately full. Con- siderable injection of cerebral substance ; more red points on incised surface than usual ; § ss of clear serous fluid in each of the lateral ventricles. Pineal gland large, containing a little gravel. Other parts of the brain healthy. Semilunar Ganglion and its dependencies white, nat- ural. Par vagum natural.