Researches on phthisis, anatomical, pathological and therapeutical.
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
- Date:
- 1844
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Credit: Researches on phthisis, anatomical, pathological and therapeutical. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![continued cough. Among two hundred and thirty subjects dying of various acute and chronic diseases two only were thus affected;—in one of these persons the original affection was of the heart; in the other caries of the spine. In both of these the great curvature of the stomach lay on the same level as the crista of the ileum, and the liver of large size and seated low in the abdomen; so that whenever the conditions of stomach re- ferred to were present there was an invariable relation between the state of the liver and that of the stomach. The lesions of the latter organ principally implicated its mu- cous membrane. This was softened and attenuated, sometimes even destroyed in certain cases; of a more or less bright red colour, and sometimes thickened anteriorly in others; or there were instances in which the red discoloration, accompanied with very considerable softening, was limited to the fundus. In some cases there were ulcerations; more frequently the mucous mem- brane exhibited a very remarkable mammillated aspect, &c. I shall describe these different states in the order in which they have now been enumerated. § 2. Softening, with Attenuation, of the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach. This lesion, which I have already described elsewhere,1 ex- isted in about one fifth of the cases, in nineteen out of seventy- six subjects. Its most common seat was the upper part and more especially the fundus of the stomach; not unfrequently it implicated half the surface of the viscus, sometimes more,—or it was limited to a space varying from twenty-eight inches five lines to thirty-six inches [72 to 90 centimeters] only. (Cases I, III, IV, VII, h, LV, XL, xxx.) The parts affected with the change under consideration had a blueish white, or slightly yellowish hue, were free from mu- cus, and remarkable for the number, more or less considerable, of large vessels ramifying upon them, and either empty or filled with blackish blood. These parts were sunken, and the mucous membrane more or less prominent around them. These different appearances struck the observer on first sight, and pointed out the places which had undergone the change in ques- ' Memoires on Recherches anatomico-pathologiques. Paris, 1826. p. 1.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21015235_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
