What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.

  • London Medical Society of Observation.
Date:
1853
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    Tubercle or Tubercular-like Bodies. Tubercle, etc. 644. Situation; number; relative position;—size; form, spherical, pyriform;—colour, yellow, grey, white (if of more than one colour, note relative position of the two); transparency or opacity.—Consistence; generally, of centre, of circumference; presenting cavity in centre? fluids expressible;—character of cut surface.—Vascu- larity ; relation of vessels to the tubercular-lilce matter, to adjacent tissues.—Microscopical characters (645 et seq.)—Condition of tissue surrounding tubercle as to colour, thickness, consistence, etc. — Situated on a membrane; is it capable of removal without injury to membrane ? appearance of surface after its removal;— inseparably united with membrane. Situation, size, etc.— colour. consistence, etc. vascularity. microscopical characters, surrounding tissues, capability of removal. Microscopical characters. Microscopical characters. 645. Granules:—number; size; colour;—aggrega- tion, size and other characters of aggregation.—Effect of re-agents, water, acetic acid, hydrochloric acid, ether, and liquor potasstc;—granules unaffected by them; dissolved without effervescence; dissolved with escape of gas; rendered more distinct; rendered in- distinct. 646. Fibres:—their definition ; size; arrangement, parallel or interlacing ? form, straight, wavy, curled; colour ;—presence of nuclei; their number, size, form, definition.—Effect of re-agents, water, acetic acid, hydrochloric acid, ether; — fibres unaffected; dis- solved ; rendered more distinct; rendered indistinct; caused to swell up ;—effect of the same re-agents on the nuclei; nuclei unaffected ; rendered more distinct; rendered less distinct; nuclei not previously seen brought into view. 647. Cells:—their definition; size; form; elas- ticity; consistence; colour.—Cell-wall; transparent; granular ; hyaline ; plicated. — Contents of cell; granules, their number, size, colour, and molecular movement. — Nucleus: number of nuclei; shape ; size ; definition ; — if several, their situation with reference to each other and to the cell-wall.—Nu- cleolus; number of nucleoli; size; form ; character of outline; colour.—Effect of re-agents, water, acetic Granules— number, size, etc. effect of re- agents. Fibres— definition, size, etc. nuclei, effect of re. agents. Cells— definition, size, etc. consistence, cell-wall, contents, nucleus. nucleolus. effoct of re- agents.