On a haematozoon inhabiting human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases / by Timothy Richards Lewis.

  • Lewis, T. R. (Timothy Richards), 1841-1886.
Date:
1872
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Credit: On a haematozoon inhabiting human blood : its relation to chyluria and other diseases / by Timothy Richards Lewis. 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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    notes which be made of tbe appearances presented by the various viscera (fourteen hours after death), a summary of which is here given. The brain was soft and somewhat anaemic; otlier- condition of the wise there was nothing special to be brain and of the . . . . . thoracic viscera. observed m its structure, nor m its ventricles. The right side of the heart contained small semi-decolorised clots, as also did the left auricle, but the ventricle was empty. There was some thickening of the mitral valve, and slight, irregular thickening of the lining membrane of the aorta—further than this there seemed to be nothing abnormal. The mucous surface of the trachea and bronchi appeared to be healthy. Scattered throughout the whole of the right lung were numerous specks of what appeared to be softening tubercle, each about the size of a pea; in addition to which two circumscribed cavities, one of the size of a hen’s egg, the other about half that size, were found in the substance of the middle lobe ; each cavity was lined by a distinct “pyogenic membrane” and con- tained thick muco-pus. The left lung contained a few small, irregularly distributed nodules of softening tuberculous matter, and one cavity, the size of a pigeon’s egg, filled with muco-pus. The weight of the right lung was 5 ounces and G drachms, and that of the left was 8 ounces and 4 drachms. The mucous membrane of the stomach was of a condition of the bright pink colour, not altered in intestine and other 0 1 abdominal viscera. consistence, whereas the mucous sur- face of the duodenum presented a mammilated and congested appearance. The jejunum and ileum in the