Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![marino uscito della piaga di un piede, etc. 8vo. Imola, 1819.—v. Nuovi Com- mentar. Medicina, Juli, 2820. (9) For instance, in one case, more bone than the weight of the whole body. [v. Richter’s Spec. Therap. Vol. IV. p.551. T.] ¢ 73 Lastly, we frequently find, both in men and animals, pEAD EXTRANEOUS SUBSTANCES, WHICH HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED ACCIDENTALLY OR PURPOSELY FROM WITHOUT, either through the natural openings of the body, as the ears, nose, mouth, fundament, and urethra, or by violence, viz. by gunshot, stabs, &c., into other parts of the body. These extraneous substances are of the most varied kinds, viz. bones, fish bones, muscle and crab shells, hair, kernels, nutshells, seeds,’ bits of wood, thorns, straw, ears of corn, money, nails, rings, the points of daggers and swords, needles and bullets especially, pieces of tobacco pipe, case knives, forks, pieces of cloth, glass, and a thousand other things. It is remarkable that such bodies will remain for a considerable length of time, indeed even during the whole life, without producing any injury or inconvenience to the person; this is especially the case if a plastic bag has been formed around, so as to isolate them from the rest of the body.? Often are they after a long time coughed up or sneezed out, or if they be in the alimentary canal, are some- times easily passed by vomiting or by stool. In other instances they produce very serious and even fatal consequences, as the pertoration of important parts, inflammation and suppuration, stoppage of the alimentary canal;” if in the air-tube, to suffo- cation or consumption; they give rise, as has been already observed, to stones, of which they form the kernels; bullets, small shot, pieces of cloth, &c., sticking in deep wounds, prevent union, and irritate the nerves;* bodies capable of swelling, as beans and peas, grow and violently distend narrow parts, as, for instance, the nostril and the auditory, passage, &c. Frequently, extraneous bodies travel very far in the body,’ partly according to the laws of gravitation, partly according to the various motions of the parts, then appear at entirely different parts, often perforate, especially if they be pointed, many parts, and so sometimes get into those canals which open externally, or into the skin, and so become dis- charged; frequently, also, are they discharged by abscess,’ and from bones by exfoliation: such wanderings we have most frequently seen in needles® and ears of corn.’ More than once quicksilver, which had been taken or rubbed : in as an oxydule or an oxyd, has been observed to recompose , itself in the body, and after remaining for a long time, to be}](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0101.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
