A probationary essay on emphysema : submitted, ... to the examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, ... / by James Russell, Junior. June 1823.

  • Russell, James, 1801-1862.
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1823
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    as to displace the heart, and even to distort the bony parietes of the affected side. In dissecting the bodies of those to whom this accident had happened, the lungs have protruded to a great extent from the thorax, as soon as it was laid open; and Stork mentions a case, in which the inflation of the lung was so complete, that it bounded from the floor like a football. * Emphysema is mentioned by Mr White as an occa¬ sional consequence of contused wounds about the head, face, eye-lids, and scrotum: it has likewise been observed in the axilla, after dislocation of the humerus. In a case that occurred to Petit, Emphysema followed the inflic¬ tion of a wound with a pointed stick, penetrating be- . tween the scapula and the ribs, but not entering the tho¬ rax. A similar effect has been observed from a musket- ball glancing along the convex surface of a rib, under the skin, and in wounds of the axilla. A case of Em¬ physema is described by M. Morel, arising in conse- % quence of a wound in the pharynx occasioned by a foil, thrust with violence through the nostril. In this case, the air collected in such quantity along the neck and throat, as greatly to oppress respiration, and to render deglutition extremely painful. Artificial Emphysema has sometimes been produced in frolic, or for fraudulent purposes, by introducing a blowpipe under the skin, and forcibly distending it. Fabricius Hildanus, Dionis, Ambrose Pare, and