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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![merely from violent extension, is very rare, more commonly it is wounded by sharp bodies thrust into it, especially in the alimentary and urinary canals. (1) For instance, in the air-tube, the alimentary canal, the urinary bladder, &c. (2) The redness is sometimes produced ‘merely by certain large vessels filled with blood, as if they were injected; in other cases it appears in little spots, in others streaky, speckled, or as it were washed, &c. (3) v. further below, in the alimentary eanal. § 85. We observe, not unfrequently with reference to their DIsEASEs, a great sympathy in the mucous membranes of different parts with each other, and particularly also with the external skin; thus they are often found affected altogether more or less by exanthematous diseases, by continued fevers, &c., and VICES OF TEXTURE are very common in them. The latter, as is gene- rally the case, so also here, frequently, arise from INFLAMMA- TION of the mucous membrane, which has a peculiar cha- racter, is called txflammatio catarrhalis, and shows itself in lower degrees of the disease by moderate redness, swell- ing, and increased secretion of the mucous fluid; in higher degrees by more excessive redness and swelling, connected with dryness, or with great disposition to the effusion of fibrous matter. This produces the pLastic spots of various kinds,} or gives rise to ADHESIONS of the mucous membranes to each other, and so to the closing up of their canals. Inflammation of the mucous membrane has often consequent to it, SOFTEN- ING, SPONGY LOOSENING, (EDEMA, FLABBINESS, and FOLDS; in other cases SWELLING, with infiltration of coagulable lymph, consequent THICKENING and HARDENING, even of a cartila- ginous character,’ in all which states a speedy coalescence, and even imperviousness of the canals lined by the mucous membrane, is readily produced. The higher, more phlegmonous degree of inflammation, not unfrequently runs into suPPURA- TION and MORTIFICATION, in the latter of which, large pieces of the mucous membrane are sometimes separated from the adjoining parts, and thrown off. OssiricaTion of the mucous membrane alone does not appear to occur.” (1) Compare § 55.—Turvusu, Apthe, are a peculiar kind of such false mem- branes which occur in the mouth, gullet, and stomach, and are situated on or beneath the epithelium of the mucous membrane, and have very various form and colour.—Lelut Mémories sur le muquet, in Répertoire général d’anat. et de physiol. pathol. Vol. III. Part I. p. 145.—[G. Macilwain, Surgical observations on the more important diseases of the mucous canals of the body. 8vo, Lond. 1330... T.] . (2) Here also belong the changes which affect the mucous membrane of pro- truded parts. v. above, § 78.—[v. Andral Précis d’Anat. Path. Vol, Lp. 266. T.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0115.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
