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.

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    cells are seen filled with minute globules, whicli after a time coalesce. Cause, want of exercise, too mucli fatty food, too little oxygenation of hydrocarbons, as in phthisis, in habitual spirit-drinkers; after long suppuration ; in cases of poisoning by phosphorus or ammonia; after yellow fever (but it is doubtful whether this is really fat; probably it is yellow atrophy), &c. Lardaceous or Waxy Degeneration.—Liver larger, heavier, and paler than norma]. Wash the sections and apply solution of iodine (iodine 12 grains, iodide of potassium 24 grains, water 3 oz.) ; this stains the amyloid parts brown, which changes to black or violet by the cautious addition of sulphuric acid. Micro- scopically, the middle part of the lobules and the inner coat of the arteries are affected with structure- less deposit. ISTothing satisfactory is known of this change either chemically or indeed clinically. Pigmentary Degeneration Liver dark, greyish brown, sometimes nearly black, larger in early stage, atrophied later on. Chiefly seen in cases of intermittent fever, rarely in this country. Microscopically there is a deposit of round or angular, blackish granules in the centre of the lobules. Cancer.—Chiefly encephaloid, of a harder structure than usual, forming round tumours about the size of a nut; the liver is enlarged. Hydatids.—Cysts of various sizes, from a pin's head to a child's head. F 2