On diseases which affect corresponding parts of the body in a symmetrical manner / by William Budd.

  • Budd, William, 1811-1880.
Date:
1842
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    Since, then, this fact is common to such a large number of diseases,—and diseases, varying so widely in the aspect of their lesions, in the nature of the textures involved, and in many other important respects,—it must necessarily be a fact of high order, and one which is justly entitled to the rank of a law. But in order to arrive at the true interpretation of this law, it is, first, necessary to inquire into the nature of the cases in which it is observed. After much consideration, I have been led to divide them into two principal groups : 1st, cases in which the morbid changes depend on fault, origi- nating in the solids affected; and 2nd, those in which the lesions originate in morbid states of the blood. That disseminated lesions of identical kind may arise from original fault in the solids affected, will be readily granted, and that such fault may affect corresponding parts of the body exactly alike, we have ocular proof in those extreme cases, in which, from some misdirection of the formative nisus, the defect takes the shape of permanent monstrosity, displaying itself in corresponding parts, with the most exact symmetry. A case of this kind which has lately fallen under my own notice, and another like it from Cruveilhier,* are delineated in the accompanying drawings,f and * Anat. Pathol., liv. xxxviii. PI. I. t A great number of casts, preparations and drawings, illus- trative of the paper, were exhibited to the Society; engravings from a few of which will be found in the plates to this volume, —Ed.