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.

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    upper half were healthy, but in the lower half of tlio latter the Payer's patches were prominent, and the surface covered with minute ulcers—the glandules infiltrated with a yellowisli-white, soft, tubercular-like substance; the edges of the ulcers thickened and com taining similar yellowish-white granular matter. The liningmembrane of the caecum and ascending colon was of a bright pink colour, and exhibited five or six cir- cular ulcers about the size of half a pea, with raised and opaque white edges. The entire contents of the in- testines consisted only of about a couple of ounces of a pea- soup-like fluid. The mesenteric glands were unaffected. The liver was soft and fatty, otherwise normal in appearance ; no re-action with iodine. The gall-bladder was almost empty, containing only a little thin ochre- coloured bile. The spleen seemed to be healthy, as did the uterus and ovaries; the former was small and unimpregnated. The kidneys presented nothing abnor- mal to the naked eye; the right and left weighed respectively 3 ounces 4 drachms, and 3 ounces G drachms :v these, together with the supra-renal capsules, were placed in spirit and kindly forwarded by 1>. McConnell for my examination, the result of which will be referred to further on (page 33). As in other cases of Chyluria on record, so in this, not the remotest clue is afforded as to the nature, or as to the cause of the disease by the post-mortem appear- ances visible to the naked eye; nor is there any sufficiently-marked lesion to account for the condition of the urine during life, nor for the rapid manner in which the patient ultimately succumbed.