A manual of necroscopy, or, A guide to the performance of post mortem examinations, with notes on the morbid appearances, and suggestions for medico legal examinations : for the use of practitioners and students / by A.H. Newth.
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- 1878
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Credit: A manual of necroscopy, or, A guide to the performance of post mortem examinations, with notes on the morbid appearances, and suggestions for medico legal examinations : for the use of practitioners and students / by A.H. Newth. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![sistent or breaking down under pressure ; containing pus (second period), grumous (later); pierced by a central canal. Walls reddened at first, afterwards white, swollen; cavity dilated; the vessel is sometimes moniliform ; adherent to surrounding cellular tissue, often with phlegmonous induration (the vessel then feels like a cord). Internal Tunic may be red or white (according to degree of inflammation), rough, opaque, thickened, softened, friable, ulcerated, &c. Observed in pyaemia, poisoning (by dyes, &c.), injuries, &c. Thrombi from phlebitis, by forming emboli, are often a cause of' metastatic ' abscess, as in the liver, kidneys, lungs, brain, &c. Pus in Veins.—Suppurative Phlebitis, from an ab- scess bursting into a vein ; in cases of pyemia, caries, bubo, &c. Primary suppurative phlebitis is rare. Adhesive Inflammation.—This may be primary, as in old people, or from the pressure of a tumour, but it is generally due to a thrombus. Phleboliths are calcareous particles which ob- struct the veins ; they are derived from degenerated coagula. Thrombosis is of importance. A clot formed before death in situ is a thrombus; may be distinguished from post-mortem clots by—], adhesion to the walls, 2, organisation, 3, decolorisation, 4, deposition of leucocytes, 5, stratification. Met with in disease of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21932748_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
