A case of pulmonary embolism, with notes bearing generally on the subject of emboli / by Wm. Robert Smith.

  • Smith, William Robert.
Date:
1877
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Credit: A case of pulmonary embolism, with notes bearing generally on the subject of emboli / by Wm. Robert Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CASE OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM, WITH NOTES BEARING GENERALLY ON THE SUBJECT OF EMBOLI. {Read before the Sheffield Medical Society.) In connexion with the notes of the case which I am shortly to read, I have thought that perhaps a brief review of the subject of embolism might not be out of place; and although I have no original views to advance on this most important disease—important alike to the physician, surgeon, and accoucheur—and have consequently hesitated in bringing the subject before you, yet I do feel that if by discussion any new light can be thrown upon the pathology or treatment of a disease which is unfortunately so frequently attended with the worst results, our meeting this evening will not be devoid 'either of interest or profit. The existence of the morbid condition which has been designated embolism was, to a certain extent, known at a very early period in the history of our art, and has over and over again been established by well-authenticated cat.es and carefully made post-mortem examinations. Thus, a con- nexion between gangrene of a limb and plugging of the main artery, between apoplexy or sudden asphyxia and hyperinosis of the blood or the so-called polypi of the heart, has long