Surgical essays / By Astley Cooper and Benjamin Travers.

  • Cooper, Astley, Sir, 1768-1841.
Date:
1818-1819
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Credit: Surgical essays / By Astley Cooper and Benjamin Travers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lobe much collapsed. In each side of the thorax there was a small quantity of bloody serum.” After the aorta has formed its curvature, it gives off numerous intercostal arteries within the cavity of the chest; and though these ves- sels are small, they communicate so freely with each other, that under a gradual obliteration of the aorta, the blood would be still readily trans- mitted to the inferior parts of the body. An ex- ample of this kind is related by Mr. Paris, and is quoted by Mr. John Bell, in his Surgical Ob- servations. Mr. Paris, Dissector for the Amphitheatre of Mr. Paris’s the Hotel-Dieu, in the year 1789, injected case° the body of a very lean old woman, about 50 years of age, whose arterial system was found to be singularly deranged, and the circle of the blood changed altogether by a complete con- traction of the aorta a little beyond the arch. Mr. Paris had his attention particularly excited to the condition of this subject by the unac- countable enlargement of the small arteries upon the fore part of the chest. He had filled the arteries with an injection composed of equal parts of suet and resin, coloured with lamp- black ; and this injection, thrown in from the mouth of the aorta, passed along so easily, that far from suspecting an obliteration, he felt that he could have thrown in more injection than is usually required for filling an adult body. The subject was so meagre, that, without dis- secting, Mr. Paris felt the thoracic arteries run-