Diseases of the stomach and duodenum / by Charles Evans Reeves.

  • Reeves, Charles Evans.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Diseases of the stomach and duodenum / by Charles Evans Reeves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    opening narrowed, but not tMckened. The large intestines contained a little fsecal matter. 12. Acute idiopathic duodenitis—Perforation of the intestine—Death. A soldier entered the hospital of Gros-Caillonj on the 13th of July, 1831, suffering from slight pain in the head, and general uneasiness, caused by bathing in the river some days before. Fifteen leeches were applied to the epigastrium; demulcents and baths. On the 29th, fever set in, accompanied with great thirst and headache. Thirty leeches to the epigas- trium. His skin became yeUow : leeches were again applied; great depression followed their use; blisters were applied, and camphor given internally. About the 16th of August, the tongue became moist and of a rose red; appetite very ravenous, and diarrhoea, which had occurred several times, retm-ned. He died suddenly on the 5th. Post mortem—The mucous membrane of the sto- mach was of a deep red, that of the duodenum the same; in the first part of the last there was a perfora- tion of the size of a five-sous piece, with black gan- grenous borders. The peritoneal cavity contained greenish-brown coloured fluid. The mucous mem- brane of the small intestines and the colon was of a dark slate colour, covered with the same kind of fluid as existed in the peritoneal cavity, and besprinkled with ulcers.
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