Volume 1

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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    only frequent but difficilis cognitu, el difficilior sanatu.—49. * WOlTOl'ic In the Se^ulpj[ij;ejtiutp,,a c^^e^of^w^ effusion into the cavities of the chest, and the removal of tj^^i\id by paracentesis, i«.rekted. It occurred to a young man after excessive exercise on horse- H^f?)^' U thp ;b94y ^-itated, fluctuation W|£^p,,di|^t^j^ctty^,p^9,ei on the left side of the ciie^^l, and the fluid \\ as drftw^ through a canula^-^ and <Oiitiiuicd i^suG; -afterwards through an orifice kept open ]>y artificial means.*-—5. ^^Tozzius and Albea'tini have described cases in which they found serum , in the lungs themselve&r ^yiien effusion,, takes pla(?e into the texture o% these viscera it constitutes/.what may properly b,e considered as drojpsy,o£t}ie IjUjjgs.^ .niLfhiiab m cases orax; iuf m instances of .^bqiafc tlefeeri^'libfefi fflt^'p no donSt'-Mky^^ilHP to tlie^^Quniulati^q^yf ^y,l/ti^r!Kin^ii)&it6e' greatest' ^nc«ii^^ tainty as Jto the^c^yjj|^ it jjjj^^i^. 3^ th^^g^psacjtipps of the? King's ak^d'&een|^|^^^^^ related a case m Wnfcn IMis operation was pertormed, pints^cf ffttid W<!te^ 4a^ifi' fi><^ln'thfe?rg^Pfc'at5^yf W ceased -aii the CiXpiration of fnnT tiionthSPt^ ^ Morgagni ,(^|d not bestow so mtich atteaition hn tiie stkt^'of urine in dropsy, as 911 otjief, sypptoiu^. ,pi>,J^lfcka^jp entitled to tlie merit of Laving particularly .directed attpj^-tioni excretion of serutn Tjy the liidneyt,, which, hi many dropsical cases, is so abundant thaif Hie tiUn^'is'ciia^nlabib li i'^ also probable, that th& presence of scruni-'ih tlfe wVihe is not confiijed to . dropsical cas^, though it may but seldditt occur uiider othe^ circupistf^nccs.—jEft, 'C^'f ^S^i^k^ase of tlris description in note.page aij4.— Ji^ci.