Description of selected specimens from the medical section of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, exhibited in room no. 2 / J.J. Woodward.

  • United States. Army Medical Department (1968- )
Date:
1876
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Credit: Description of selected specimens from the medical section of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, exhibited in room no. 2 / J.J. Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    0). (383.) Portion of ascending colon, the mucous membrane of which is thick- ened, and presents numerous large excavating ulcers occupying a large portion of its surface. Detached shreds of mucous membrane, coated with lymph, hang from the edges of the ulcers. From a soldier of the 2d Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps, who died of dysentery. The colon throughout was in the condition of the specimen. {Gat. of Med. Sect., 18G7, p. 78.) Contributed by Assistant Surgeon H.Allen, U. S. A. CG. (361'.) Portion of the triinsverse, and 67, (36.S,) of the descending colon. In both, the mucous membrane is thickened and presents numerous large irregular ulcers, such as result from the separation of diphtheritic sloughs. From a soldier of the 1st Maryland, age 22, who died of dysentery. {Cat. of Med. Sect., 18(17, p. 7K.) Contributed by Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. Vols. / nS. (422.) Portion of the transverse, and Gt), (423,) of the descending colon, presenting large eroding ulcers which penetrate in 422 to the muscular coat, and several of them in 423 to the peritouiBum ; the mucous membrane much thickened. Fi'om a soldier of the 7th Maine Battery, age 1(!, who died of dysentary. There was also some ulceration in the lower jiart of the ileum. {Cat. of Med. Sect., 18(;7, p. 78.) Contributed by Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. Vols. 70. (849.) Portion of colon, much thickened, with jagged and extensive ulcers, at the edges of which the mucous membrane hangs in shreds; some pseudo-mem- brane adheres to those portions of mucous membrane M'hich are not destroyed. From a negro, age i>0, who died of dysentery in the Freedman's Hospital, Washington. Metastatic foci were found in the right lobe of the liver, and scattered tubei-des in both lungs. {Cat. of Med. Sect., 18G7, p. 70.) Contributed by Assistant Surgeon E. Bentley, U. S. A. 71. (148.) Portion of colon, the surface of which has been extensively eroded bj' ulceration, Jeaving, however, numerous little islets of intact mucous membrane, in many of which pin-head ulcers of the solitary follicles can be seen. From a soldier of the G2d New York, who died of diarrhoea, (dysentery?) {Cat. of Med. Sect., 18(i7, p. 73.) Contributed hy Acting Assistant Surgeon E. Hartshorue. 72. (1280.) Cajcum and part of the colon, with diphtheritic sloughs. From a soldier of the 11th U. S. Infantry, who died of dysentery, at Fort Sill, Indian Terri- tory, September 13, 1874. This man was first taken sick with symjitoms of acute diarrhoea, which passed into fatal dysentery. In this case the cnscum and ascending colon had become adherent to the abdominal walls in the right iliac region, and one of the ulcers in each having perforated, a fcecal abscess had formed in the abdom- inal walls, which communicated by one opening with the crecum, by another with the ascending colon. Two other perforations in the colon had led to foecal extrava- sation into the abdominal cavity and general peritonitis. (Specimen received since Catalogue was printed.) Contributed by Acting Assistant Surgeon C. W. Knight. The next five specimens are from cases of scurvy. The cribriform condition of the aortic valves shown in No. 75 has been supposed to be a characteristic lesion, but this is somewhat doubtful. With these specimens should be considered Nos. 26, 27, and 28, which present the typhoid lesions as modified in scorbutic subjects.