Dysentery and its homoeopathic treatment : containing also a repertory and numerous cases / by Fred. Humphreys.

  • Humphreys, F. (Frederick), 1816-1900.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Dysentery and its homoeopathic treatment : containing also a repertory and numerous cases / by Fred. Humphreys. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Especially important is the participation of the sub-mucous cellular tissue. The serous infiltration of this tissue at the beginning, penetrates by degrees into the muscular ; hence arises a considerable thick- ening of the intestine, often to the extent of from three to five lines; at the same time through the contraction of the muscular coat, the folds of the mucous coat are pressed inward, and the intestine as- sumes a warty, glandular, hypertrophied appearance, forming the warty hypertrophy of the sub-mucous cellular tissue, described by Gely. With the extension of the disease, the mucous membrane over the knotty infiltrated sub-mucous cel- lular tissue, frequently becomes overlaid with a firmly adherent dark red, darkish brown scurf, which final- ly degenerates in large stripes to a dark friable al- most carbonized mass, which yet later is thrown off in the form of tubular patches, (the so called sphace- lated membrane.) The sub-mucous cellular tissue ap- pears either as a carbonized mass of blood, or is satu- rated with bloody serous fluid, or bleached, and con- taining in its vessels a mass of dark carbonized blood, but which later, in consequence of throwing off of the sphacelated portions, is infiltrated with pus in consequence of active inflammation, (Roki- mouths of the swelled follicles. Frequently tlie central dark point is replaced by a small greyish ulcerous opening, which leads to the base of the krypt; some of these ulcers are two or three lines in di- ameter.