Case of acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis / by A.D. Fripp and J.H. Bryant.

  • Fripp, Alfred Downing, (1865-1930)
Date:
[1898]
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Credit: Case of acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis / by A.D. Fripp and J.H. Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to which secondary inflammation and necrosis of the cells of the bordering acini of the lobules had occurred. It is inter- esting to note that no parenchymatous inflammation could be seen, except at the periphery of the lobules in the immediate neighbourhood of fat necrosis. The bacilli were found only where blood was present, suggesting an infection through the blood-vessels. The normal appearance of the lining cells of pancreatic ducts, and the absence of blood and bacilli inside them, make the possibility of this source of infection unlikely. Two other cases of this disease at Guy’s Hospital have been examined by Mr. Pakes, the Demonstrator of Bacteriology, and in each a pure culture of the Bacillus coli communis was obtained from the pancreas. A very similar case has been fully reported by Dr. Frede- rick Craven Moore in the Medical Chronicle of August last, from the pancreas of which a pure culture of the Bacillus coli communis was obtained, and in which the channel of infection was thought to be the lymphatic spaces. PRINTKD BY ADLARD AND SON, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.C.