The morbid anatomy of the brain in mania and hydrophobia ; with the pathology of these two diseases as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal; with an account of some experiments to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey.

  • Marshal, Andrew, 1742-1813.
Date:
1815
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of the brain in mania and hydrophobia ; with the pathology of these two diseases as collected from the papers of the late Andrew Marshal; with an account of some experiments to ascertain whether the pericardium and ventricles of the brain contain water in a state of health / to which is prefixed a sketch of his life by S. Sawrey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The great arteries at the entrance of the skull were spotted with white spots which were more friable than the other portions; all the arteries of the neck and in the thorax were white, thin, and tender. Thorax.—There was more than a pound of bloody water in the pericardium, the inside of which and the surface of the heart were rough- ened by inflammation; there was little or no blood in the heart, its muscular substance was dry, and the auricles, like the veins and sinuses of the head, were filled with dark-co- loured blood. The nerves pf the neck were whiter, dryer, and harder than common ; the left lung, though there was no cough, was stud- ded with a grey cheesy-like substance. CASE III. Bethlem Hospital, Sept. 28, 1789.—J—*n P *—t had been eight years in the Hospi-