Anatomical and physiological description of the late Signor Sarti's new anatomical model, : together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases of the principal organs. / By W. Mawhinney, surgeon.

  • Mawhinney, W.
Date:
[between 1849 and 1854?]
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Credit: Anatomical and physiological description of the late Signor Sarti's new anatomical model, : together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases of the principal organs. / By W. Mawhinney, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PERICARDITIS. Inflammation of the membrane that surrounds the heart will arise trom any of the ordinary causes of inflammation in serous membranes; one of the most common is cold after a warm temperature. Being a nbro-serous membrane, it often occurs when rheumatism attacks the joints, either from sympathy with them or from being similar in struc- b.1* often JPPears when rheumatism begins to decline, or when it as disappeared suddenly. This disease is important, especially as it either accompanies or precedes all the other inflammations of the heart, £ 7alvf‘ -11 usua% occurs in persons between the ages of iifleen and thirty ; but it is sometimes seen at a much earlier period. . ?e °' tlle principal symptoms is feverishness, with heat. There is pain m the^ region of the heart, increased by pressure between the ribs over the part, or by pressing up the diaphragm under the cartilages of the 1S,IeVereN ^ng through the left shoulder blade up- Ilh 1 ^ shoulder, and descendlng down the arm to the bend of the J?e^°nd lt\’ the pain also increases during inspiration, or by Zirt then eu Slde 5 the Pa]Pltatlon the heart is quick, and also re- Z *t°V\u tlW8 1S/re,timeS faintin^ There is ^ttle to be learnt by the ear—the sounas of the heart are clear, although they are of a negative chaiacter. We do not hear the loud murmur or the sonorous or sibilous * J i ot bronohitis, or the crepitous rattle of pneumonia, or the segophony ft nor have we preternatural sounds of organic®disease bPjno. „near/- Uihe tieatment of the disease there is nothing peculiar, ' g active mflammation, except that there is great danger of its be- hvT!a chj:onic ^sease. General bleeding is seldom required ; hut local, ouirPd r°f m 6CheS °r CUP?mf °Ver the part> is ^nerally aP that is re- Co]chicum is useful, if any morbid irritability remains after the acute stage has passed ; it may be given three or four times a day, in doses t three or four grams, with great benefit. INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING OF THE HEART. tl , ^his may take place from the same causes which produce pericarditis - Perj]eral|y> ]t not always, as a consequence of pericarditis. The p mmpa symptoms are a smarting pain along the spine, in the region c-xtend, ifth ’ r sreat rapidity of pu)se ; and, / the inflammation n h bm?g of the aorta, a smarting pain is felt along the spine, treatment-1]18'6 °.1tlat ves,sel.: tainting is a very frequent symptom. The thp fing tle Same as 3n Pericarditis, little is required to be said on fl_n subJ.ecti exeePt that colchicum will not be required, this being in- loTdiet il P^ely serous membrane. Local bleeding, purgatives, low diet, and rest are the principal remedies. Inflammation may extend ?S °f -the beart> and induce disease of these parts ; there is hearMteelfeP°S,tlrS ° fl ^a7 TtteT found in them* lbe walls of the usual t f Lbe mfla,med ^ may be found much thicker than in Jhe staetpenf lnner;itheSe ,different affections will produce a change affection /nf the pU S6>' ani m tbe Sound of the heart, as well as ditwTf ^'.organs, as the lungs, &c. and produce effusions, as the te SibTetoT8 droPsy* A detailed account would be quite unin- hearTar^ th?,general reader; besides, as the diseases which affects the hp rlL fnf aiy ?°se(luent °n pericarditis, the whole attention ought to bednectedto that disease that it maybe checked as earlv as possible! The organic affections of the heart are treated by medical men on the