Case of hypertrophy of the spleen and liver, which death took place from suppuration of the blood / by John Hughes Bennett.

  • John Hughes Bennett
Date:
[1845?]
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Credit: Case of hypertrophy of the spleen and liver, which death took place from suppuration of the blood / by John Hughes Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    entirely on the addition of aqua potasscB, but is unaffected by ni- tric acid. The filtered urine is not affected by aqua potass(B, and yields only a slight white haze when boiled. March 3. Legs oedematous, ordered to be bandaged with flan- nel bandages. March 9- CEdema of legs increased. PostascB Carbonatis, ^j.; Spiritus j^tJieris Nitrici^ ^iv.; AqvcB Mentha^ siij.; Aquae fontis, ^x]. Sumat unciain ter in dies. March 10. Tormina and diarrhcEa increased; urine not in- creased. Haht. Haustus ex Olei Ricini, gss. statim ; et ezactis quatuor horisy Opii gr. ii. March 12. To have steak diet. March 13. Attacked this morning with heat of skin; thirst; pulse, 110, full, very compressible. Had some diarrhoia yester- day ; none this morning since an opium pill. Urine, 100 ounces. Omittantur mcdicnmenta. Sumat statim Pulveris Ipeca- cuanhce et Opii gr. x., et repetatur singulis semihoris ad tertiam vicem. March 14. No sweating from the powders; diarrhoea still ra- ther troublesome ; pulse, 100, softer ; tongue dry and brown ; febrile expression of countenance resembling that of typhus. §, Aquce Acctatis Ammonice^ 5vi.; Solutionis MorphicB, ^i.; AqucB fontis, §iij. ; Syrupi^ gj. Sumat unciam quartd qudque hard. Haht. Decoctum Hordei pro potu. March 15. Died suddenly in the morning. Sectio Cadaveris. March \^th, [four days after death.)— Externally the body presented a considerable prominence of the ensiform cartilage and false ribs on both sides. The abdomen was contracted; considerable dulness on percussion on left side, which had previously been marked out by a line formed with ni- trate of silver. No ascites nor oedema of the limbs. Blood. — The blood throughout the body much changed. In the right cavities of the heart, pulmonary artery, vencp. ca- vce, vena azygos, external and internal iliac veins, and many of the smaller veins leading into them, it was firmly coagulated, and formed a mould of their size and form internally. In the cavities of the heart and vena cava the blood when removed was seen to have separated into a red or inferior, and a yellow or supe- rior portion. The red portion was of a brick-red colour; it did not present the dark purple smooth and glossy appearance of a healthy coagulum, but was dull and somewhat granular on section^ and when B