Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk.

  • Budd, George, 1808-1882.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was the subject. In the.other cases, the texture of the mucous membrane had undergone no appreciable change. The glands of Peyer were remarkably developed in all the cases, and the most so generally in those that proved fatal rapidly, or during the stage of col- lapse. They were of the same colour as the sur- rounding membrane, but in two cases, (6, 8,) in which this colour was red, the tint of the patches was observed to be deeper. When pale, they were in all cases dotted with black points. The glands of Brunner were observed, in every case, in the lower portion of the ileum, as small elevated beads, of the same colour as the membrane. These, as well as the glands of Peyer, were the most developed in the cases that proved rapidly fatal^ and in all these suf- jficiently so to give a sensation of roughness to the finger passed over the membrane. The contents of the small intestines were found tinged with bile in none of the cases that proved fatal within thirty-six hours, but more or less so, with one exception, (case 8,) in all those that were more protracted. This tint was confined to the jejunum in 3, 6; to the ileum in T. They were brownish in the jejunum in 7, 8; of a plum colour, evidently from the admixture of blood in the ileum, in 8. In most cases, the mucous membrane was more or less coated by a pasty substance. The mucous membrane of the large intestine was, in most cases, pale throughout; observed to be red-