What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.

  • London Medical Society of Observation
Date:
1853
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    phleboliths. Blood. Physical charac- ten. § II. O. Lymphatic Glandt. Characters be- fore section— colour, etc. capsule. Characters after section— colour, etc. consistence, tubercle, cancer, fluid exuding. Special glands— cervical, axillary, inguin^. bronchial. mesenteric. lumbar, etc. size of opening;—condition of arterial and venons wall of orifice;—aize of vein and artery at affected point.— Phleboliths; their number ; aize ; free or attached, and in what manner P relation to lining membrane;— microscopical and chemical characters. Blood. 476. Physical characters: — colour; consistence; —fluid or coagulated P—characters of coagulum; its form, size, consistence (uniform or not ?), colour (uni- form or notP); relative amount and consistence of pale and dark portions; ]H)sition of pale and dark portions in relation to one another and to posture of body;— microscopical characters (645 et seq.); — chemical characters. — “ Examination for poisons.” — Blood mixed with gas; amount and nature of gas; vessels in which found. G. — LYMPHATIC SYSTEM. Lymphatic Glands. 477. Characters observed before section-.—size; colour; consistence; llaccidity, etc.;—condition of capsule;—condition of tissue in which they are im- bedded. 478. Characters observed after section:—colour of surface.; amount and situation of black matter; —general aspect of cut or of fractured surface ; con- sistence, soft, hard, calcified;—containing tubercu- lous-like matter (644); containing cancerous-looking matter (638 et seq.);—character of fluid exuding from cut surface on pressure, to naked eye and under microscope. 47i). Special lymphatic glands.—Cervical glands: part and side of neck on which diseased glands are situ- ated.—Axillary glands.—Inguinal glands; above or below Poupart’sligamcntP—Appearance of skin cover- ing these several groups of glands ;—openings from the glands on surface of skin; discharge from openings or not ? characters of diseWge (601, 002). — Bron- chial glands.—Mesenteric glands: number visible ; relation of enlarged glands to particular portions of intestines or to diseased conditions of them.—Lumbar, iliac, and sacral glands.