History of the cholera controversy with directions for the treatment of the disease / by Sir George Johnson.

Date:
1896
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    IX, Dr, Sutton’s Report on the Post-mortem Appearances in the Stage of Collapse. An important paper on the condition of the heart and lungs after death, in the collapse stage of cholera, was contributed to the fourth volume of the “ London Hospital Reports,” by the late Dr. Sutton. Two physicians of Guy’s Hospital, who have since died, questioned the accuracy of my report of the post- mortem appearances. They both denied that there was a great accumulation of blood in the right cavi- ties of the heart and the pulmonary artery, and that the minute tissue of the lungs was remarkably ansemic a,fter death in collapse. One of them, who was notorious for treating grave subjects with levity, said of me (Lancet, January 19, 1867) “We believe him to be as honest as he is mistaken, and we can scarcely pay a higher compli- ment to his uprightness.” As I was not content to be considered honestly mistaken, it was satisfactory to find that Dr. Sutton’s report of the post-mortem appearance in fifty cases of death in collapse, during the epidemic of 1866 was in exact agreement with the description which I had published, and the accuracy of which was denied by my opponents. Dr. Sutton says of the heart: “ The right side was seen to be very much distended. This was particularly noticeable in the greatly distended condition of the right auricle and the auricular appendage The left ventricle