Volume 1
Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart; on aneurism of the thoracic aorta; on preternatural pulsation in the epigastric region: and on the unusual origin and distribution of some of the large arteries. Of the human body / [Allan Burns].
- Allan Burns
- Date:
- 1809
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart; on aneurism of the thoracic aorta; on preternatural pulsation in the epigastric region: and on the unusual origin and distribution of some of the large arteries. Of the human body / [Allan Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![case in malformed hearts. The ventricles in re- gard to form ‘and relative strength, seemed to have. changed places; the right auricle was twice as large and: as thick in its sides as the left, and the foramen ovale was so large as to permit the little finger to pass from the one sidé to the other; the valves defending the mouth of the pulmonary artery, were at their floating ex- tremities, cartilaginous, and even in one or two spots ossified, and they were so connected with each other, that only a small opening, not larger than a barley seed, was left: from the ventricle into the artery ; some‘small fleshy and membra- nous processes were attached to the edges of the aperture. “ON this case I should ates that the on- ly difference between it, and that of the boy recorded by Dr. Hunter, consists in the situ- ation of the aperture leading from the right to the left side of the heart. In the girl, the foramen ovale remained: pervious, whereas, in the boy, an unnatural hole was found in the sep- tum of the ventricles. In the symptoms produ- ced, they nearly resembled each other. In Mor- gagni’s patient you would also notice.a circum- stance, which I] shall have occasion to recall to your observation afterwards; I allude to the thickening of the right auricle and ventricle. You will from cases hereafter to be detailed, learn, that when the blood.is obstructed in its passage, from any of the cavities of the heart,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33283114_0001_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
