Instances of some of the rarer varieties of morbid growths swellings, &c. connected with the organs contained within the abdominal cavity.

  • Ogle, John W. (John William), 1824-1905.
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[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Instances of some of the rarer varieties of morbid growths swellings, &c. connected with the organs contained within the abdominal cavity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    absent seventeen months. She had become worse three months before admission, and suffered from severe sickness and slight and scanty action of the bowels. On admission she had constant vomiting. A large hard tumour could be felt very prominently, close to the brim of the pelvis, on the right side, and almost in the pelvic fossa. An apparent obstruction was found on introducing the long O'Beirne's tube into the rectum, which could not be overcome. Afterwards a small amount of faecal matter was passed. Stimulants were given, and the bimeconate of morphia injected subcutaneously with great relief. She grew weaker and thinner, and died November 18. Post-mortem Gxamination.—It was found that the tumour felt during life was the displaced pyloric extremity of the stomach, which was so contracted as scarcely to admit a goose-quill, and surrounded by a mass of scirrhus to the extent of an inch. The stomach was enormously dilated. The large intestines were contracted in one or two places, but no carcinoma of their valves existed. The other abdominal organs were natural. The lungs were very oedematous; heart healthy. [311.] Case XIIL—Tumour formed hy a mass of extravasated hlood, situated heneath the ]peritoneum^ and liamging hy a pedicle from the transverse colon. Harriet B., set. 25, was admitted June 11, 1858, with evident disease of the brain. Delirium, strabismus, and other symptoms set in, and she died June 17. Post-mortem examination.— Softening of the central part of the brain, and effusion of serum on the surface and in the ventricles of the brain, were found ; also psoas abscess, connected with caries of the bodies of the fifth to the ninth dorsal vertebrse. The intestines were tympanitic, and hanging from the transverse colon, about midway between its attached border and the omentum, was a mass of extra- vasated blood, covered by the peritoneum, and attached to the intes- tine by a narrow pedicle. [166.] Case XIY.—Stvelling of the right iliac region in connection toith cancerous disease of the ccecum, in tohich luas an idcerating cavity^ having the stomach and several jjortions of the small intestine communicating loith it. James P., set. 31, was admitted December 6,1865, having had diar- rhoea, attended by pain and swelling in the right iliac region for four months. On admission, there was a hard diffused swelling in the right iliac region, very painful on pressure ; but the skin over it was not red or painful: the bowels were quite regular. After admission, the pain greatly abated, and the tumour subsided, and the patient im- proved much in health. About the end of January, the swelling and pain returned, and pus was gradually approaching the surface, when suddenly there was an evacuation of purulent fluid hy the rectum, and the tumour somewhat subsided. He now rapidly emaciated, and his face assumed a cachectic appearance. The right leg became oedematous,