Observations illustrating the anatomical structure and physiological history of monsters with eventration / by Charles Henry Hallett.

  • Hallett, Charles Henry.
Date:
[1847], [©1847]
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Credit: Observations illustrating the anatomical structure and physiological history of monsters with eventration / by Charles Henry Hallett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    amination, by which it was discovered that they had the same structure, that the external as well as the other two membranes possessed the germinal membrane and tessalate epithelium, cha- racteristic of a serous membrane. The sac having been divided crucially, and carefully reflected from the viscera, to which it was adherent, an aperture or rather a fissure in the abdominal parietes was brought into view. The inner side of this fissure was nearly straight, but the outer was curved; the convexity of the curve looking towards the left side. The fissure extended from the sternum to near the pubes; its length was nearly five inches; its breadth, even at the widest part, scarcely exceeded an inch. All jthe abdominal viscera were displaced and thrown out, some partially, others completely—from the abdomen, and were all more or less misshapen. The liver was thrown out of the abdominal cavity most com- pletely. It rested on both the abdominal and thoracic parietes, and was placed obliquely on them, so that one surface looked up- wards and to the right, the other downwards and to the left. It ascended as high as the lower border of the fourth rib, on the left side, and descended as far as the umbilicus'on the right. Instead of having its usual flattened form, it had assumed that of a com- pressed sphere, in which the right and the left lobes could not be distinguished. There was a depression of inconsiderable extent on its right inferior border, through which the umbilical vein en- tered directly into its substance. Another depression was ob- served on the opposite border, which lodged the gall-bladder in a collapsed state. A large and rounded portion, thicker anteriorly than posteriorly, projected from its lateral and posterior aspect, which, on close examination, was found to be the lobus spigelii^ enormously developed. A sulcus, more than an inch in depth, intervened between this lobe and the general mass of the organ. The oesophagus was slightly increased in length, and opened into the stomach on the left side of the lobus spigelii. The sto- mach was greatly displaced, but not much altered in shape. It was received into the sulcus between, and was closely com- pressed by, the lobus spigelii and the body of the liver, in the substance of which it appeared to be completely imbedded, be- fore some adhesions between the sac and that viscus were divided and the parts more completely exposed. The lesser curvature looked directly backwards, and tightly embraced the posterior constricted portion of the lobus spigelii. The greater curvature projected somewhat from the surface of the liver, and was all that could be seen of the stomach, unless the two parts of the liver were forcibly separated. ; The stomach appeared to have been lodged in the extraordinary and unlooked-for position I have just