Anatomical, pathological and therapeutic researches on the yellow fever of Gibraltar of 1828 / by P. Ch. A. Louis, from observations taken by himself and M. Trousseau as members of the French Commission at Gibraltar ; translated from the manuscript by G.C. Shattuck.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Anatomical, pathological and therapeutic researches on the yellow fever of Gibraltar of 1828 / by P. Ch. A. Louis, from observations taken by himself and M. Trousseau as members of the French Commission at Gibraltar ; translated from the manuscript by G.C. Shattuck. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OBSERVATIONS. evident to the eye, as well as on incision of the membrane, which was only one half as thick here as in surrounding parts. Its consistence was natu- ral, except in some points in the great curvature, where it gave on traction strips three or four lines in length. Its thickness along the great curva- ture was less than a line; every where else nat- ural. The mucous membrane of the duodenum was universally of a red orange tint, of a proper thickness, and the strips obtained by traction in the valvular portion were from two to four lines in length. The follicles were not unusually developed. Small intestine of usual size. The jejunum contain- ed a wine glass of a blackish liquid mixed with a considerable quantity of mucus. Its mucous mem- brane was greyish, of a proper consistence in some points, and gave by traction strips of from five to six lines. In the mucous membrane of the ileum near the caecum, were some arborizations, and its strips were from two to three lines in length. Peyers patches were natural. The size of the large intestine was not remarkable. The caecum, and the first half of the right colon, contained a considerable quantity of liquid blood of a raspberry color. Farther on was a thick liquid matter, of the color of light lees of wine. The mucous membrane had a pale red or livid color in some parts of the caecum and right colon, a color of onion parings in other parts of the