Case of transposition of the abdominal viscera / by William Campbell.

  • Campbell William, 1788-1848.
Date:
[1821?]
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Credit: Case of transposition of the abdominal viscera / by William Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Mr Lizars, lecturer on anatomy; and physiology, who opened the body, favoured me with the accompanying Drawing, which is a correct representlition of the situation of the parts. Mrs C, the mother of this extraqrdinary production, lives in the Grass-market, where, for the last fifteen years, she has, by persevering industry, gained her livelihood by carrjang ^'^ter up stairs to the better families residing in that quarter ot the town, This woman remained single until she had attained her -i 1st year, when she married her present husband, who, by account, is two years youno-er than herself. She conceived soon after marriage, but aborted between the third and fourth month of gestation, in aU probability from her laborious employment. She soon alter conceived a second time, but was equally unfortunate, for she parted with the conception about the end of the fourth month. She very soon, however, became pregnant a third time, and was so fortunate as to carry forward the conception to the lull time, when she was delivered, by u contemporary lecturer, ot a anpv of the heart was found to point to the right side, nearly opposite the sixth rib, StsclvitSlnl^e ^ularitv in the disposition of the Uioracic nerves. In the abdomen, the liver wj^ Imated n the left hypochondriac region,-the small lobe to^^^ras the .gK ^d Cgreai loUe in thele'ft. The stpn,a'ch ,nd spleen were sit^.^ted on^^^^^^^^^ The intestines and biUary ducts were I'i'^^'^!,*'?'?^ ^orH, ?nd ReseSches, by sition related by foreign authors. In MorS^i ^^'^^^^^^^ part'of th; Sect. 11, a case is mentioned, on the authority ot l^eprot^e, ^tiArhment ctlon wis found in the thorax passing through the diaphragm at lU attachment ^ith die ensiform cartilage ;_the patient, a '^^^'^^'-J^^J^^^^^^^ omentum, pancreas, tholinus and Clauderus both mention '^f-^.V^T^^^^^^..^^^^^^^ the ffistoire duodenum, and colon, *vere found in the left cavity of the th^^^ del'Academie Eoyale des Sciences for the yesu ™ Vol. J, P^^ ^ colon were Utes the case of a Lieutenant-colonel, where th^ a cai-tilaginous found in the left thoracic cavity, passing through an °f2k vSy properly con- inar-gia to the left side of the spine; and the ^y^hor, I think, ve^ eludes, in consequence of the marg.tvof this opening »'^'S i'ndividual. viscera must.havc been so transposed froin Uie first f^^i ^ ^^^^^ Kiverius, in his Observat. Med Cent. ly. Observ_67. Bon^^^^^^ ^^^^ p. 105, both mention the case of a young f ^4 y^^ °*qu^,^k, for the euro prescribed an over-dose of some preparation of ant^mo^^^^^^^^ „.as found in the of intermittent fever. He died in consequence and *e t,°7n his Aphorism. Pa- right side of the tliorax. Vetter, a ^ f '^1 wL the whole small iholog. Anat.p.l44, 14.5, the f^ * ^^f ^LlX^eternatural round hole, intestines passed immediately behind the J^^^^^^^.f^j/uie lungs of Uiat side, into the loft cavity of the thoiax, and cm/, .w'Tceks old, where the whole left \n the same work is recorded the case * ' f ^\^ ^'^Jdominal viscera had passed talf of the diaphragm was wautmg, ajid almobt all Jic aouou. i^ito ihp thorax.