Directions for making anatomical preparations : formed on the basis of Pole, Marjolin and Breschet, and including the new method of Mr. Swan / by Usher Parsons.

  • Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868.
Date:
1831
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    cases are more frequent, and less dangerous, and they occur more in common dissections, and particularly, in preparing bones or ligaments after long maceration. The symptoms attending this last kind of wound are the following :—the ringer being scratched or pricked in the morning ; there is not much pain at the time, but it gradually increases to- wards evening; a little uneasiness is felt in the axilla, and next morning red lines can be perceived running up the arm. The finger is now excessively painful; there are often slight rigors, and general uneasiness.; the counte- nance is anxious, tongue sometimes furred, and head-ache ; but there is not much fever. The finger then becomes rapidly swollen and livid, so as to call for immediate atten- tion, and the general system still more and more affected. In respect to the first, or malignant kind, which is more likely to occur from examining a body that has died from peritonitis, in the form of hernia and puerperal fever ; or from pleurisy, there will, in five or six hours after receiving a scratch or puncture be a small pimple, or a blush of red. If the case proceeds in the usual manner, there will pro- bably be a darting pain up the arm, which seems to fix more particularly in the shoulder or side of the chest. Within fourteen hours, the patient is very ill; he suffers a great deal of pain, and is anxious and alarmed. Red lines may generally be perceived running from the hand towards the axilla, but it sometimes happens that there are no marks on the arm, nor even on the finger. Indeed, the affection of the finger is occasionally so slight, that it is neglected, and the patient refers all his suffering to the shoulder and chest. Vessications often appear, and the case may end in desquamation of the cuticle, or in suppu- ration with extensive sloughing, and a discharge of fetid matter, and in many instances, it proves fatal. The local treatment of both kinds of the above mention- ed wounds, should be the same, at the moment they are inflict- ed. It consists in applying to the wound a drop of strong mineral acid or of caustic ;—the French prefer liquid muri- ate of antimony. But after this has been neglected, and