Account of a case of irregular formation of the heart, accompanied with a supernumerary valve in the pulmonary artery / [Theophilus Thompson].

  • Thompson, Theophilus, 1807-1860
Date:
1842
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Credit: Account of a case of irregular formation of the heart, accompanied with a supernumerary valve in the pulmonary artery / [Theophilus Thompson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF A CASE OF IRREGULAR FORMATION OF THE HEART, ACCOMPANIED WITH A SUPERNUMERARY VALVE IN THE PULMONARY ARTERY. By THEOPHILUS THOMPSON, M.D., PHYSICIAN TO THE NORTHERN DISPENSARY. READ JUNE 28th, 1842. In December 1841, I was requested to visit, as a patient of the Northern Dispensary, A. H., an un¬ married woman, aged thirty-eight. I found her sitting up, but with her head nodding, in conse¬ quence of drowsiness, with which she was oppressed, and into which, after being aroused, she almost immediately relapsed. Her complexion was livid, her lips were purple and swollen: the external jugular veins in a state of great distension, which was not removed by compressing their upper por¬ tion. The pulse was rapid and feeble; the impulse of the heart rather weak ; the first sound shorter and more flapping, the second less distinct than natural. Both sounds were, however, unattended