Volume 2

The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy; containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks ... / John Baptist Morgagni ; abridged, and elucidated with copious notes by William Cooke.

Date:
1822
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    7* not implicated in the process of mortification, or there may exist some other cause of pain, as spasm or worms. In some of these patients, which others as well as myself have examined, calculi were found in the gall-bladder; but whether the coin- cidence was accidental or not I leave others to determine. When discharges of black matter by stool are united with a cessation of pain, the occurrence must be associated with the most alarming symp- toms, and those which intimate the approach of death. With this observation I must unite the circumstances mentioned concerning a nobleman;* not, indeed, as being conjoined with pain in the intestines, for in consequence of their paralysis they had not become painful; but as being con- nected with violent inflammation in the whole of these viscera.—23. Dissection. The abdomen was tumid. The peritoneum in- vesting the muscles, as well as covering the intestines, was highly inflamed, especially throughout the ileum. Coagulable lymph had been effused, and adhesions formed in consequence; and certainly in this case there was slight inflammation of the peri- toneal coat of the liver. The mucous coat at the pyloric extremity of the stomach, and for some inches within the duodenum, was considerably inflamed, as I had anticipated; and from attentive investigation, I believe that in this case, as well as in the others to which an allusion has been made, the appearance in the duodenum was the cause of hepatic excitation.—Ed. * Vide page 45.