Military-medical reports : containing pathological and practical observations illustrating the diseases of warm climates / by James M'Cabe.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Military-medical reports : containing pathological and practical observations illustrating the diseases of warm climates / by James M'Cabe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generally found gorged with dark coloured blood. Let us now consider the above physical changes, or morbid appearances in the body, occasioned by this fever, and see how far they may assist us in directing the treatment of the disease. The principal circumstances to which wTe think attention should be directed, are the livid spots in the lining membrane of the stomach and intestines; the engorgement of blood in all the vital organs, and about the centre of the circulating system; effusions of coagulable lymph, producing adhesions be- tween contiguous surfaces; and serous effusions into cavities, from the exhalent arterial termi- nations. That serous effusions, constituting dropsical collections, are the consequence of increased action of the vascular system, is now well ascertained, and dropsies are no longer held to depend on general debility, or what has been called a cachectic diathesis. Wherever serous effusions are found to have taken place, we may be certain that they had been preceded by inflammatory action, or at least by a morbidly increased action in the circulating system. Effusions of coagulable