The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / By Matthew Baillie.
- Matthew Baillie
- Date:
- 1793
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / By Matthew Baillie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 10 ] oe resemble a common ox’s bladder in some degree dried, or like a common pericardium which had been for some time exposed to theair. Asthe thorax and abdomen, were entire in both cases, no opening whatever having been made into either, this effect could not arise from evaporation. Were this capable of taking place, the appearance here noticed, would , be very usual in ex- amining dead bodies, and the internal parts generally would be affected by the influence of the same cause. It must be considered therefore as the effect of a process which was going on during life. ‘The cause of this appearance is probably a defect in the action of the exhalant vessels of the peri- cardium, so that the fluid which naturally lubricates this part, was not secreted inthe proper quantity. There is nothing more difficult to conceive in this, than a de- fect in the action of any other part of the ‘body. A portion of the pericardium has in some instances, been observed to be converted](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3327972x_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
