On spontaneous gangrene from arteritis and the causes of coagulation of the blood in diseases of the blood-vessels / by Joseph Lister.

  • Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
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[1858]
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Credit: On spontaneous gangrene from arteritis and the causes of coagulation of the blood in diseases of the blood-vessels / by Joseph Lister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON PONTANEOUS GANGEENE EEOI AETEEITIS AND HE CAUSES OE COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD IN DISEASES OE THE BLOOD-YESSELS. By JOSEPH LISTER, Esq., F.E.C.S., Eng. and Edin., ASSISTANT-SURQEON TO THE ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH. (Read be/ore the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, March 17> 1858.) [reprinted from the EDINBURGH MEDICAI. JOURNAL FOU APRIL 1858.] Ik President and Gentlemen.—The case which I have the onour to bring before you this evening is one of spontaneous gan- rene in a child. The patient was a gii-1, six years okl, who, having ad scarlet fever nine months previously, and afterwards suffered verely from dropsy, was seized about the middle of July last with eadly whiteness and coldness of both lower limbs up to a little ove the knees. Her mother describes them as having resembled ax in appearance. She and her neighbours rubbed the legs pcrse- ringly, and, after an hour or two, the left limb recovered its irmth and usual aspect, but the other continued in the same state • about two days, when the mother observed some pale blue dis- oration between llic ankle and the calf. This increased, spread- downwards to the foot; and, at the same time, undergoinw rious changes of tint to pink, red, and green, till, at the end of r weeks, the limb presented the appearance depicted in this etch. [Not here reproduced.] At this time she was brought to the -jyal Infirmary, anci was admitted into one of the senior surgeon's ards, where, in the temporai-y absence of Mr Spence, she came