A probationary essay on emphysema : submitted ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ... / by James Russell, junior.

  • Russell, James, 1801-1862.
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1823
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    much practical importance, other rare forms occasionally present themselves, the origin of which is involved in great uncertainty,, and which ought rather to be consi- dered as medical curiosities, than as the probable sub- jects of practice. Under the latter class,, we would include those local collections of air which could not have been derived from' without, and which do not always originate from the generation of air by putrefaction. Riveeinus, Zacu- TUS LUSITANEUS, FoRIlESTUS, FaBRICIDS HiLDANOS,- Brown, Beckett, Wiseman, Le Cat, Turner, J. Hunter, &c> mention cases of this kind, besides ex- amples-detailed in the Ephemerid. Nat. Curios, and other medical records, in, some of which cases, the Emphysema occurred under the form of an encysted tumor. There are, in short, few parts of the body in which air has^ not at one time or another been found collected. Dr MoN- 310 *, in opening the body of a patient who died after ca;stration, found the mesentery inflated with air to a prodigious bulk, as were all the other cellular parts of the abdomen; ail the veins, large and small, were in the same condition; the auricles and ventricles of the heart were greatly distended, and collapsed with a great blast of air when cut. As some ounces of pus were likewise found in the cellular membrane, it 16 very possible, that, ■ ^'vUiiiT-;: - ...... • Edinburgh Medical Essays, vol.. v.-p. .2.75-