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

Date:
1878
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    SERIES IV.] The history showed that the patient had an attack of acute inflammation in the chest, 3 months before admission, the disease being confined to the left side. On admission signs of cavity had already developed. Patient's habits were bad. He is said to have caught cold during a drinking bout. He Avas a man 36 years of age, a bottle-blower, and in the hospital was under the care of Dr. Perry. Path. Rep., March 3, 1871. ^ 64. Empyema—perforation of lung. Pneumothorax. The pre- paration shows a portion of the lung and pleura in a case, in which the left pleural cavity contained pus, and was distended with air. The lung was completely collapsed, but at its posterior aspect there was, as shown in prepara- tion, a circular loss of substance involving the entire thick- ness of the pleura, and a superficial layer of lung substance, and with abrupt edges. This ulcer opens directly into a bronchial tube of a diameter not less than a crow-quill. Both costal parietal pleuras, on the side, were pretty thickly coated with soft lymph. There were a few localised condensations in both lungs, but no extensive disease, and no vomica. The duration of the disease was 8 months, expectoration, cough, night sweats. History as of phthisis. Pain in left side. Roughened respiration at bases behind. Liver depressed, heart normal. Path. Sep., Sept. 5, 1873. 65. Part of false membrane lining pleural cavity in a case of pyopneumothorax. There was 50 oz. turbid fluid in left pleura. Tlie interior of its cavity was lined by a laminated thick skin the outer surface of which was shining and smooth and connected to the costal pleura by bloodvessels. On stripping it away the vessels were found to radiate in star shaped fashion on the outermost leaf of the false membrane. The innermost leaf was shaggy, reticulated, or in places smooth but soft. Path. Rep., July 5, 1875. 66. Preparation from case of cut throat put up to show how the glottis becomes covered over by the stump of the epiglottis and the adjacent membrane when the cut as in the present case passes across the epiglottis just above the thyroid cartilage. The wound in this case was very large, but the vessels were not cut; and the stump of the epiglottis is seen lying over the anterior half of the glottis just as it lay during life, thus serving to impede respiration. Path. Rep., July 20, 1875. 67. Specimens of emphysema vesicularis and emphysema inter- stitialis (dry). 68. False membrane coughed up in diphtheria (Dr.Eben. Watson).