Cases of diffuse inflammation of the cellular texture : with the appearances on dissection, and observations / by Andrew Duncan jun.

  • Andrew Duncan
Date:
[1824]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cases of diffuse inflammation of the cellular texture : with the appearances on dissection, and observations / by Andrew Duncan jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    56/184
    3d.—The fore-arm seemed affected with general erysipelas, which continued to increase; but it is not a little remarkable, that its progress up the arm terminated at the part around which the ligature had been applied. 14th.—Erysipelas declined. 15th.—Exceedingly low, and he began to get wine. Livid spots of the part affected with erysipelas sup- purated. 16th.—Sloughs began to come away in the even- ing. After this, suppuration, ulceration, and slough- ing continued for a considerable time, with loss of skin, cellular membrane, and Mr Burton thinks even of muscular substance. He was also subject to a kind of delirium, when fatigued by the dressing of the sores. He did not recover finally till August, and, at present, his left fore-arm is considerably smaller than the right; his wrist has little motion, and his hand, which at first was flexed, is now ex- tended. There are large scars both on the hand and on the fore-arm, with adhesion of the skin in vari- ous parts, particularly near the wrist, to the parts beneath. On drawing the finger across the scars on the fore-arm, a singular tingling sensation is ex- cited in the hand, as if an exposed nerve were irri- tated by it. CASES XIX. & XX.—From Dissection and Puncture; not fatal.—Communicated by Mr Lizars. “ Mr S., one of my pupils, assisted in the dis- section of a puerperal fever case, when he pricked
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3