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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![§ 38. Further, the irregular colouring of animal bodies is often caused by the reception of various extraneous colouring matters into the body. This is observed almost generally in the lower animals, especially in the parasitic, when living on dif- ferent kinds of food ;' also locally, as the consequence of various medicines and poisons; thus the bones of men, beasts and birds, are more or less reddened by food of a red colour.’ The taking of rhubarb often tinges light parts yellow; hydrocyanic acid renders many organs bluish or greenish; nitrate of silver,’ quack medicines, of which the composition is unknown,’ and other medicines,* often render the skin blackish. (1) For instance, the aphis, the louse, fresh oysters, &c. (1*) [Z. Ingenhousz, Some further considerations on the influence of the ‘vegetable kingdom on the animal creation, in Phil. Trans. Vol. LXXXII. p. 426. | (2) This also occurs in wild animals; for example, in the water rat, of which I have seen one instance. [H. Baker, On the etiects of the Opuntia or Prickly Pear, and of the Indigo Plant, in colouring the juices of living animals, in Phil. Trans. Vol. L. p. 296.—Gibson, On the effect of Madder Root on the Bones of Animals. Manchest. Mem. new ser. Vol. I. p. 146. T.] (3) Swediawer in Fourcroy La Médecine éclairée par les Sc. physiques. Vol. I. p. 342.—Albers in Medic. chir. Transact. Vol. VII. Part I. p. 284; and Roget, ib. p. 290.—Butini De usu interno preparationum argenti. Genf. 1815.— Baillie s. N. Samml. auserl. Abhandl. z. Gebr. pr. Aerzte. Vol. IX. Part III. p. 379.— Wedemeyer in Rust's and Casper’s Krit. Repertorium. Vol. XIX. Part III. p. 454. (4) A secret of my grandfather’s on my mother’s side, Dr. Weigel, of Stralsund, produced, in some instances, tomy own knowledge, a general dark colour of the skin. (5) Transiently after the wse of sulphur and quicksilver, by which a kind of /Eruiorps is formed. v. Rigby, in London Medical Repository, Jan. 1817. § 39. Finally, we oftentimes observe some peculiar colouring matter or pigment’ spontaneously produced in animal bodies, and colouring certain parts more or less completely; such is the case in jaundice, écterus, and in melanosis. In the former dis- ease there is formed in the body a yellow animal extractive or colouring matter, which has great similarity to the pigment of the bile, and tinges almost all the solid and fluid parts of the body more or less yellow and dusky, however, so that many of the systems assume a yellow colour more frequently than others.? Diseases of the liver, asthenic fevers, as the plague, the American yellow fever,” typhus fever, &c., are commonly attended with jaundice; the same also occurs in animals, but much less frequently. In melanoszs,’ on the contrary, a deep brown or more frequently a blackish tinted pigment is mor- bidly produced, which occurs sometimes generally, sometimes to a limited extent; in the former, it is either mingled with the particular excretions, as the urine, the perspiration, the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
