A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins, containing the pathology and treatment of aneurisms and wounded arteries / by Joseph Hodgson.

  • Hodgson, Joseph, 1788-1869.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins, containing the pathology and treatment of aneurisms and wounded arteries / by Joseph Hodgson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    course of the circulation. The deposition takes place in sacs which are formed in consequence of the destruction of the coats of an artery from an internal cause, as well as in those which occasion- ally arise from wounded arteries. In some diseases of the heart, in which the cavities of that viscus are prasternaturally dilated, or their muscular parietes so much attenuated that they are unable to propel the whole of their contents, the flbrine of the accu- mulated blood is deposited in the cavity. I have seen two instances in which this had taken place: one was a dilatation of the left auricle, in conse- quence of a contraction of the auriculo-ventricular opening; the other was a case of passive aneurism of the left ventricle. CASE XII. I had an opportunity of inspecting the body of a young woman, concerning the symptoms of whose disease I was not able to obtain any satisfactory in- formation. The lower extremities were anasarcous, and the cavities of the abdomen and thorax con- tained much serum. The heart appeared unusually large, but there was no serous effusion into the peri- cardium. The cavities on the right side of the heart were larger than natural, and were filled with congealed blood. The left auricle was excessively dilated. The opening by which it communicated with the left ventricle was so much diminished by a