Volume 2

The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy : containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks / by John Baptist Morgagni ... abridged, and eluciated with copious notes, by William Cooke.

  • Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771.
Date:
1822
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    sii])piirate(l extensively. The ulcer of the mouth held extended to the upper part of the pharynx, and to the posterior foramina of the nostrils, where the ulcerative process was advancing at the time of the man's decease. The liver, some parts of the intestines, and the internal muscles of the abdomen, were livid, and exceedingly offensive. Morgagni, Epist. xxviii. Article 12. Case 2. Carcinomatous tumours of the larynx and pharynx. A man fifty years of age began to complain of some impediment to deglutition. This affection gradually increased, and was accompanied with loss of voice. The effort of swallowing became 'painful, a portion of food lodged in the fauces, and sometimes by degrees returned into the mouth, slnd appeared as if it had been putrid. The body 'ijecame emaciated, and the left internal maxillary gland was perceived to be indurated. In this case also, the patient died suddenly, under circum- stances indicative of suffocation. Dissection. The gland which it has been said was indurated, had matter on its inner side resembling albumen; and there were many car- cinomatous tumours in the pharynx and at the ^ Tipper part of the larynx.— Valsalva^ xxviii. 9. Case 3. Carcinomatous tumours; the epiglottis perforated. In a youth wlio died nearly ill the same manner as the man whose case has just been related.