Catalogue of the Pathological Museum of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary / edited by David Foulis.

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1878
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    septum and passing backward to the posterior, and forward to the anterior wall of the ventricle. At its posterior part, there is a calcareous plate of considerable dimen- sions only covered by thin membrane, and in this region there is a well marked depression forming, as it were, a bay out from the ventricle. In the riglit ventricle, there is a smaller patch, occupying the surface of the septum in a situation corresponding to the middle of the patch m the left ventricle. The septum is thinned in the parts occupied by these patches; this thinning depending upon atrophy of the muscular tissue, which, hoAvever, is not, at any part, completely wanting. In addition, there was general enlargement'of the heart (23^ oz.) and dilatation of both the tricuspid and mitral orifices. There was also a large patch of thickened pericardium on the surface oi the right ventricle. , -n w ;i The history of the case, which was under Dr. Terry, Ward III., showed principally chronic bronchitis with oedema, tending to chronic inflamation of the lungs. [Fat/i. Rep., Mar. 24, 1873.] , • i 115. Atheroma of the aortic arch, with a large fibrinous polypus adherent. The entire thoracic and the upper halt ot tlie abdominal aorta were in this case very extremely atheix)m- atous with very advanced calcareous degeneration. Lhere were several fibrinous coagula adherent, the largest being preserved in the preparation. It is situated about 2 inches above the aortic valve, and is about the size of a hazel- nut There was in this case also considerable enlargement of the heart, both ventricles being about equally myolved. This case was admitted into Ward VIII. under the care of Dr Gairdner, on Dec. 9, and died on Dec. 10, Ib^^. There had been chronic bronchitis attacks every winter for some years. CEdema of feet and legs ot about 4 weeks standing; there was irregularity of hearts' contractions and altered quality of the first sound. {Paihol Reparts, Dec. 11 1872 1 Congenital malformation of the aortic valve with two semi- lunar curtains. As the preparation sliows, the aortic valve in this case presented only two curtains-a large one on the left, and one of normal size (in the preparation cut rough the middle) on the right side. These curtain arc generally of normal thickness, there bemg only he c and there, and especially near their insertions, a shgli Jliickening and even a partial adhesion ot their proxnna borders- for the most part the curtams are ot normal sC, and there, is no trace of a third curiam or of a 116