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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![(1) Compare with reference to Literature, Reuss Repertor. commentat. Vol. XIII. p. 365—383, — Ploucquet Repertor. Art. Gangrena & Spha- celus. — Maitland D. de gangrena. Edinb. 1775. —[F. Quesnay Traité de la Gangrene. 8vo. Paris, 1749.—-Vie d’ Ayr Suite des observations sur les con- cretions animal, in Hist. de la Soc. Roy. de Méd. 4to. Vol. IV. p. 279. Paris, 1779—98. T.|—Himly Abhandl. tiber den Brand der weichen und harten Theile. 8vo. Gdétt. 1800.—Neumann Abhandl. vom Brande und Heils- methode desselben. 4to. Wien, 1801.— Leslie D. de gangrzena contagiosa. Edinb. 1804,—Johnston D. de gangreena contagiosa nosocomiali. Edinb. 1805. — Heffter Doctrine de gangrzna brevis expositio. Lips. 1807.—Lassus Pathol. chir. Edinb. 1809, Vol. I.— Liesching D. de gangrena. 4to. Gétt. 1811.— Thomson, Lectures on Inflammation, &c. 8vo, Edinb. 1813. — Brugmann Den Hospitalbrand. — J. Delpech Mém sur la complication des Plaies et des Ulcéres connue sous le nom de Pourriture d’Hépital. 8vo. Paris, 1815, Gerson Ueber den Hospitalbrand, etc. 8vo. Hamb. 1817.— Ericson pres. Akerman Observationes circa gangrenam. 4to. Upsal. 1817.— Hilson D. de gangrena nosocomiali. Edinb. 1818.— Brauer Observat. quaedam de gangrena nosocomiali. 4to. Lips. 1820. — Henzschel D. de gangrene atque sphaceli natura, indole et curatione. 4to. Lips. 1821.— Gregory D. de gangrena nosocomiali. Edinb, 1822.—Arnold D. de gangrena. Landishut. 8vo. 1823.— Hancke Ueber den heissen und kalten Brand, etc. Einladungsprogramm. 8vo. Breslau, 1826. — Renard Ueber hospitalband. Mainz, 1815. — Dussaussoy Dissertation et observations sur la gangréne des hépitaux, etc. Lyons, 1807.— C. P. Hilsenberg D. de gangrena nosocomiali. 8vo. Berol. 1828. (2) Old age, scarlet fever, measles, and erysipelas dispose to mortification ; so also syphilis, the mercurial disease, the contagion of typhus, &c. It very commonly arises from burns, or severe cold; further, from the cessation of the circulation in a part; also from ligature, compression, or stoppage of the large blood-vessels; very commonly also from continued pressure of very tight ligatures, from the pressure of a tourniquet in the cure of aneurism; from con- tinued lying on a part; hence the wounds produced by lying, DEcuBITUS, on the sacrum, edges of the hip bones, the blade bones, and heels, in long con- tinued illness, with great weakness of the living powers. Aneurism of the heart, and large vessels, sometimes cause mortification of the limbs. (2*) [An instance of mortification of the cheek, consequent on hooping cough in a child, has lately occurred in St. Thomas’s Hospital. She died in nineteen days from the commencement of the attack. T. | (3) For example, soft juicy parts are much more easily destroyed by mor- tification than hard parts, as tendon, cartilage, and bone; in the latter, this disease is named NECROSIS. (4) Boyer, in his Treatise on Surgical Diseases, Vol. I. improperly calls the mortification, which does not penetrate beyond the skin and subjacent cellular tissue, GANGRANA, and that which penetrates deeper into the flesh, and to the bones, SPHACELUS. (5) Pott Obs. on the mortification of the toes and feet in Chir. Works. 8vo. Vol. III. Lond. 1791.—Cooper, in Phil. Transact. Vol. XXIII. p. 1195; Vol. XXIV. p. 1970.—Thomson, p. 537.—Hodgson, Treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins, &c. p. 65. 8vo. Lond. 1815.—Bawer in der Dresdner Zeitschrift f. Natur-und Heilkunde. Vol. II. Part II.—-Weinech D. de gangreena senili. 8vo. Hale, 1821. I have seen a man, about thirty years of age, who had lost by this disease all his toes and fingers, his ears, and a part of his heels. I have seen this disease sometimes produced by vices of the heart. The mortification which arises, after living on blighted corn, is very similar. v. Dodard in Journ. des Savans. 1676.— Noél in Mém. de l’Academ. des. Sc. 1710.—[In the Medical Museum, 1763, Vol. I. p. 442, a very interesting history is given, by Dr. Wool- laston, of a whole family, who were all affected with mortification of the legs, in consequence, it was believed, of eating bread made with bad corn, (it being then, 1762, a time of great scarcity;) and also, that the mother and her six children were all affected within three days, and the father in a fortnight after. T.] Langius Descriptio morborum ex esu clavorum secalinorum Campania. Lucern,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0071.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
