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.

Date:
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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    tion of ulcers (syphilitic or others), poisoning by caustics or cancerous deposit in the walls. Inflamma- ZioTC—mucous membrane is swollen anri granular, with uniform redness (rare as an idiopathic afiFection). The mucous membrane is normally a pale grey colour. ZTZceraiio^i-generallyin the form of clean cut, round ulcers sometimes with jagged edges; simple or syphi- litic, (in latter case with gummata). Perforation— often connected with aneurism of aorta, which bursts into the oesophagus; sometimes joined to the trachea. TttmoMrs.—Cancer—sometimes medullary, rarely scirrhous, mostly epithelioma. This last appears as a circumscribed growth on one side, sometimes of a warty nature. Warty growths, cysts, myomata. The oeso- phagus may contain foreign bodies as a mass of food, bones, false teeth, &c., which may pierce the aorta. STOMACH. The size of the stomach varies considerably in health; the following table is the mean of several measurements :— Inches. Inches. Transverse diameter 9 to 10^] L*°qi Vertical 4 „ 5 Uistended. 2| „ Empty. Antero-posterior 3 „ 4 j l » Before opening place a hgature at each end, pre- venting it slipping off by passing a pin through the coats • then inflate ; notice the state of the walls. Put the contents in a bottle, if for medico-legal examma- tion, and seal up at or^oe, or put up the whole stomach