Engravings intended to illustrate some of the diseases of arteries, accompanied with explanations.

  • Hodgson, Joseph, 1788-1869.
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Engravings intended to illustrate some of the diseases of arteries, accompanied with explanations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    lined with thick crusts of calcareous matter. The semilunar valves are separated from each other in consequence of the dilatation of that part of the vessel to which they are at- tached : they are thickened and shrivelled. The abrupt ter- mination of the disease in the arch of the aorta is very remarkable, and allows a just estimate to be formed of the extent of the dilatation. The arteria innominata, and the left carotid and subclavian arteries, arose from the upper part of the cyst.