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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![(3) Niwnberger D. de atrophia partiali, s. de ariduris. 4to. Wittenb. 1792. (3*) [A remarkable instance of wasting from this cause occurred several years since, when a part of Dover cliff fell down, by which a pig, known to have weighed, just before the accident, eight score, or 160 pounds, was buried. ‘The animal remained entombed during one hundred and sixty days, when, as the workmen were clearing away the rubbish, they thought they heard a weak moan, and directing their labours in the direction of the noise, soon met with the pig, the life of which had been preserved by a piece of the cliff having lodged over its stye; during this time it had had no food, beyond perhaps the litter and biting the chalk, on which its teeth marks were visible, and the water which had run through the cliff. When taken out, it weighed only two score, or 40 pounds. T.] (3**) [There is a fine specimen of this state of the thigh bone in the Mus. Coll. Surg. Lond. No. 448, in which the body of the bone does not exceed $ths of an inch in diameter, but the cause is not known. There is also a similar instance in the Mus. Lond. Univers. of the upper arm bone. T.] (4) For instance, the chrystalline lens after depression; the testicles in syphilitic persons. § 19. A peculiar form of morbid diminution is the CONTRACTION OF CANALS and CAVITIES, strictura, coarctatto, produced by the contractility existing in almost all animal tissues, and often much increased by morbid irritants ;'—by deficiency of expansile power ;’—by thickening of the walls of the canal ;° —by external pressure, &c. The highest degree of narrowing is the MORBID CLOSURE, atresia morbosa, which, however, is much more rare than the congenital. (1) For example, by stones in the biliary and urinary bladder. (2) Thus, blood-vessels and excretory ducts which convey no fluids, con- tract themselves in consequence,—the intestinal canal below the fcecal fistula,— articular cavities after dislocation,—the sockets after extraction of the teeth,—all bony canals when the vessels or nerves passing through them disappear, even the cavities of the orbits and chest, when their contents collapse. (3) Frequently in the alimentary canal and urethra. § 20. To the excessive smallness is opposed the IRREGULAR MAG- NITUDE, magnitudo aucta, which may be either ORIGINAL or ACQUIRED subsequently. The former is not unfrequently GENERAL, affecting the whole body, for children may be born unusually large and strong,’ or during youth, they may have an unnaturally active growth,” and thus attain a size which remarkably exceeds the ordinary bulk. This is called GIANTISM, macrosomia, magnitudo gigantea, and individuals so affected are called GIANTS, homines pregrandes, gigantes.’ This giantism occurs also, though not so commonly in brutes.** In many instances irregular magnitude is united with unusual fatness,’ not unfrequently, also, a premature puberty, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
