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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    1 SECTION V. Wounds b'^ tHif lTeORAX. Wounds of the diaphragm, and hernia through thar i Of septum. : A blind man, seventy years of age, fell and struck the left side of his chest against a flint, witK such violence as to fracture his ribs, ^rid wiib received into the hospital of St. Mary de Vita.^ His pulse was hard, he had an oppressive E^ntf* pricking pain in the wounded part, respiration was very difficult: and although this difficulty subsidedf a little on the fourth day, it became more violen^ again on the sixth, and was accompanied witK 0 delirium. He died on the ninth day. f)issection. The left cavity of the thorax was full of extravasated blood, and the true ribs of the corresponding side were all fractured. The seventh^ hadi-wounded the diaphmgm by its rugged exti'e- mity, and round the wound this muscle was umversally inflamed.— Valsalva, ^. ']^T\ie)^\op^^ the lacerated inter- co'^stal vessels. There is juo mention of cough in this case, or of effusion into the abdomen. Pro- bably the situation of the wound in the fleshy fasciculi, which might no'i jjiay^ been completely perforated, will r^p^^cile the apparent discrepancy between this case and that related before.* To the wounded and inflamed state of the diaphragm, which is the principal agent in respiration, the very urgent dyspnoea must be referred. —6. * Vide page 424.