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
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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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![mucus from the lungs, in certain cases also, perhaps (in the matter evacuated) in Melena,’ or the BLack DisrAsE of Hip- pocrates, and colours them blackish; or it may be deposited as a fluid or semi-coagulated mucus on the expanded surface of serous membranes, particularly the peritoneum and pleura.‘ In the confined state the black pigment is found accumulated either in the otherwise healthy substance of an organ, espe- cially of the skin, of the lungs, of the bronchial glands, &c., or it may accompany the various vices of texture, as mortification, particularly of the dry kind, false membranes, soft swellings, scirrhus, cancer, medullary sarcoma, and most commonly, at least in animals, tubercular swellings.’ (1) G. Jaeger Ueber das Vorkommen von Kohle in mensch]. Gallensteinen, nebst einigen Bemerkungen iiber Verkohlung ‘organischer Korper tiberhaupt, in Meckel’s Archiv f. d. Physiol. Vol. VI. p. 485.—Heusinger Untersuchungen iiber die anomale Kohlen und Pigmentbildung in dem menschlichen Korper, mit besonderer Beziehung auf Melanosen, u.s.w. Eisenach, 1823.— 4. Retzius in Svenska Lakare-Pallskapets Handlingar. Vol. X. (2) The skin, the cellular tissue and muscles, for instance, more commonly than bone and cartilage; most rarely the nervous system.—The KiIRRHONOSE of Lobstein (v. his papers in the Zeitschrift f. Physiol. of Tiedemann and G. It. and L. C. Treviranus, Vol. II. Part I. p. 79, and in Repertoire gén. d’ Anat. et de Physiol. pathol. Paris, 1826, Vol. I. Part I. p. 141). A yellow colouring of the serous membranes and nervous medulla in the foetus I have also occa- sionally observed, but have considered it not actually different from the jaundice. (2*) [ Pariset Observations sur la fiévre jaune. 4to. Paris, 1820. T.] (3) Dupuytren appears to have first drawn attention to this disease. v. Journ. de Médec. de Corvisart, Vol. X. p. 89—96.—Bayle, in Recherches sur fa Phthisie pulmonaire, Paris, 1810, Obs. XX. and XXI.; and Laennec, in Journ. de Médec. de Corvisart, Vol. IX. p. 368, first employed the name, Melanose, and distin- guished thereby, especially, a kind of sarcom; on Melanosis in general, compare Laennec de Vauscultation médiate, etc. 8vo. Paris, 1819, Vol. I. p. 299.— Bréschet in Magendie’s Journ. de Physiol. expérim. Vol. I. No. 4. p. 854.—Merat in the Journ. des Sc. médicales. Vol. XXXII. Art. Mélanose, p. 183.—Heusinger. —Nouack Comment. de Melanosi cum in hominibus tum in equis obveniente, etc. 4to. c. trib. tab. en. Lips. et Paris, 1826.—Savenco Tentamen pathologico-ana- tomicum de Melanosi. Petropoli, 1825.—Schier D. de morbo quodam maculoso, quem Melanosin recentiores appellant. 8vo. Berol. 1826.—[ Graves M.D. Clin. Observ. in Dublin Hosp. Reports. Vol. IV. p. 69. 8vo. Dublin.—G. Breschet Considerations sur une alteration organique appelée Degenerescence Noire, Melanose, Cancer, Melané, etc. 8vo. Paris, 1821.—B. Travers, Observations on the local diseases called Malignant, in Med. Chir. Trans. Vol. XV. p.195. T.] (3*) J. Cheyne, M.D. Case of Melena in Dublin Hosp. Rep. Vol. I. p- 259, 1817; a remarkable instance, in which the production of the secretion peculiar to this disease, alternated with increased activity in the serous mem- branes.-—4. Portal Observations sur la nature et sur le traitement du Melana in Mem. de la Societ. d’Emulat. Vol. If. p. 167. (4) Melanosis membranacea in Merat and Noack. (5) See the Tenth Section, On Vices of Texture.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
