An essay on the nature and treatment of the Indian pestilence, commonly called cholera / by Henry Penneck.

  • Penneck Henry.
Date:
1831
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Credit: An essay on the nature and treatment of the Indian pestilence, commonly called cholera / by Henry Penneck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    % that the other symptoms were the result of its exten- sive sympathies, and that time had not been allowed for diseased appearances to take place. Afterwards, in addition to morbid changes in the brain, there was “ a congestion in the whole venous circulation of the larger vessels” and the viscera* : of this common oc- currence I have just given what I believe to be a satisfactory explanation. In the latter stages, it seems agreed on all handsf, that “ those who died of the subsequent illness, shewed no appearances after death different from such as are usually observed in other cases of febrile disease, attended with corresponding symptoms.” Dr. Keir’s account of the appearances after death strongly support the above view of the subject: “ on opening the skull,” he says, “ the bloodvessels of the brain and its membranes were more or less turgid with blood, particularly towards the base ; the arachnoidea had sometimes in several places lost its transparency, and adhered to the pia mater : a fluid was sometimes effused into the convolutions of the brain in some quantity, and more or less of serum in the lateral ven- tricles. The bloodvessels of the vertebral column and spinal chord were more or less loaded with blood, which was sometimes effused between its arachnoid and dura mater : partial softening of the substance of the spinal chord was sometimes met with, and marks of inflammatory congestion in the larger nerves. The lungs were generally gorged with dark-coloured blood; the cavities of the heart filled with the same.” “ Both stomach and intestines bore marks of conges- tion, and of a sub-inflammatory state.” “ The colour of those parts also varied a good deal; from dark-colour-