Volume 2

Observations on the clinical history and pathology of one form of fatty degeneration of the heart: being the substance of a paper read before the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society, Oct. 4, 1849 / [Edward Latham Ormerod].

  • Ormerod, Edward Latham, 1819-1873.
Date:
[1849]
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Credit: Observations on the clinical history and pathology of one form of fatty degeneration of the heart: being the substance of a paper read before the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society, Oct. 4, 1849 / [Edward Latham Ormerod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Note to Table on page 28.—Dr. Kirkes, who has kindly communicated to me the particulars of the two last cases, says The heart was small and flaccid: the muscular substance, especially of the left ventricle, had a dirty brown unhealthy aspect. Near the apex one part of the wall of the left ventricle felt peculiarly soft, and, when cut into, the muscular substance of that part was found to be changed into a tough yellowish substance, not unlike tubercle. Within, scarcely any part of the ventricle was found free from this morbid change, occurring in streaks or patches of a yellowish white colour. To this ex¬ tent, under the microscope, the fibres of the heart presented a confused granular appearance, and the fibrils next the yellow' markings had no transverse striae. There was much oily matter hereabouts. The degeneration was so extreme that at first I thought there must be some tuber¬ cular or other deposit, but 1 satisfied myself that it was all fatty, and entirely confined to the left ventricle.] Brighton, October 1849. Wilson and Ogilvy, 57, Skinner Street, Snowhill, London.