A report of microscopical & physiological researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing cholera / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham.
- Timothy Richards Lewis
- Date:
- 1872
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A report of microscopical & physiological researches into the nature of the agent or agents producing cholera / by T.R. Lewis and D.D. Cunningham. 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.
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![Post-mortem appearances ; —Fluid in peritoneal cavity; intestines lined -with, a slimy pinkish material. [ 49 ] periment, injected into tlic right femoral vein. Owing to the slipping of a ligature, the dog Death in 3 hours. iost about a couple of ounces of blood during the operation. The haemorrhage was, however, con- trolled, and the dog recovered from the influence of the chloroform, but died about three hours subsequently. A post-mortem examination was made within six hours after death. The abdomen was consi- derably distended. There were two or three ounces of reddish fluid in the peritoneal cavity, and the intestines were pinkish externally. They were distended with air, and coated with a slimy, pale pinkish material, but contained very little fluid. The liver was pale, and there were already gaseous bubbles beneath the peritoneal coat. There was no fluid either in the pleural or pericardial sacs. The lungs were collapsed. The right cavities of the heart were distended with black blood; those of the left side were empty. (y.)—Choleraic material used being ten days old. Experiment XXIY.—A healthy, but very young pariah pup was put under chloroform, and about three drachms of the fluid of the same evacuation employed in the previous experiments, but which had now been kept for eleven days, was injected into the right femoral vein. The dog rapidly recovered from the chloroform ; but there was some disturbance of the respiration, more especially immediately after the injection. The material in- jected was crowded with monads and bacteria, and contained numerous circular cells nearly the size of blood corpuscles and with granular contents. The dog died hours after the operation, and a post- Post-mortem appearances; mortem examination was performed -nothing special. six hours afterwards. Rigor mortis absent. The abdomen was distended, and the peritoneal cavity contained some reddish fluid. The intestines were distended with air, but contained no liquid. The mucous membrane was, in one or two spots, coated with pinkish mucus. The liver and spleen were healthy in aspect. Material injected 10 days old, crowded with bacteria and granular cells ; death in hours. G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22355510_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
