Catalogue of the medical section of the United States Army Medical Museum / prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, by J.J. Woodward.

  • Woodward Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Catalogue of the medical section of the United States Army Medical Museum / prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army, by J.J. Woodward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 91. Portion of caecum with appendix veriniformis; numerous tumefactions of connective tissue hardened by D. 2. calcareous deposits, at extremity of appendix. See 92, chap. III., sec. 2, A. I, for history. E. Tubercle. WO. 693. Portion of omentum, in which several tubercles, the size of millet seeds, are embedded. E. 1. See 691, chap. III., sec. 2, D. 7, for history. No. ?*i S . Portion of omentum, containing a large uumber of minute tubercles. E. 2. See 720, chap. IV., sec. 3, M. 45, for history. No. 778. Portion of omentum, containing tubercular deposits. E. 3. J. A. S., mulatto woman, age 20. Admitted, February 6th, 1SGG. Diagnosis—consumption. Died, March 31st. Autopsy fifty-four hours after death: Height, five feet; weight, one hundred and ten pounds; rigor mortis in lower extremities, none in upper; some emaciation: small-pox pits upon face; right lung, firmly adherent at all points, infiltrated with tubercle, and contained numerous vomicae ; left lung, covered with a thick coating of plastic lymph, contained much tubercle and a few small vomica:; eight ounces of serum in left pleural cavity; heart fatty ; ten ounces of serum in pericardium ; nutmeg liver ; some tubercle in spleen ; kidneys lobulated and fatty ; entire tract of small intestine exhibited large tubercular ulcers, with ragged irregular edges, penetrating to peritoneal coat, with tubercular deposits on peritoneal surface ; cecum showed a large number of small similar ulcers ; remainder of large intestine presented follicular ulcers throughout the whole tract, especially in ascending colon; two pints of serum in abdominal cavity; tubercles of omentum ; fibrous tumor in uterus. From Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D. C. Autopsy by Hospital Steward S. S. Bond. 779, chap. V., sec. ], A. 2, lobulated kidneys; 760, chap. V., sec. 5, B. 4, fibrous tuaior of uterus, are also from this case. Nos. 642 612. some knuckles of ileum, with numerous small tubercles connected with peritoneal coat and peritoneal :ill<l surface of mesentery; there are also numerous peritoneal adhesions. 643, portion of omentum of same 643. patient, thickened, its fat atrophied, and presented numerous yellow tubercles. E. 4 and 5. M. A. S., mulatto, age 14. Admitted, September 4th, 1865. She had miscarried the day before admission. at third mouth of pregnancy; syphilitic cicatrices on external organs of generation; a pustular eruption over body; ring-worm eruptions on face. October 24th, much emaciated; too weak to sit up; appetite capricious, sometimes enormous, at others entirely wauting. Died, November 20th. Autopsy: Height, five feet one inch ; weight, about eighty pounds ; emaciation extreme; no rigor mortis ; tubercle the size of a pea on upper surface of right lobe of cerebellum, near medulla oblongata; both lungs somewhat adherent, lower lobes congested ; much pigment in both lungs, and a few miliary tubercles: four ounces of serum in left pleural cavity, two ounces in right; pericardium contained half an ounce of clear serum; heart small and fatty, small white clot in each ventricle,, extending into pulmonary artery and aorta; liver small, fatty, and firmly adherent to diaphragm; a few tubercles in each kidney; spleen dotted with deposits of white tubercle the size of peas; deposits of white tubercle on under surface of diaphragm ; peritoneal surface of stomach covered with small tubercles, hanging like grapes, with narrow necks ; intestines adherent to parietal peritoneum and to each other; a cavity, with walls of dirty-yellow lymph, was formed in lower portion of abdomen immediately over bladder, containing about a pint of faecal matter and pus; uterus enlarged and ulcerated internally and on posterior lip of os; ovaries and fallopian tubes, coated with the same dirty lymph which lined the cavity above described; a few small ulcers, with irregular edges and gray bases, at upper portion of vagina, adjoining os uteri. From Freedman's Hospital, Washington, D. C. Autopsy by Hospital Steward S. S. Bond. 044, chap. V., sec. 1, D. 2, tubercles of ludncys; G45, chap. V., sec 5, A. 3, ulceration of mucous membrane of womb, are also from tiiis case. No. 739. Portion of greater omentum containing numerous minute tubercles. E. 6. See 735, chap. I., sec. 2, B. 2, for history. J\o. 581. Section through diaphragm, liver, and stomach, which are mutually adherent; numerous oval, flattened E. 7. masses of cheesy tubercular matter, about the size of almonds, on diaphragm and surfaces of liver and spleen. See 582, chap. II., sec. 3, C. 1, for history. No. 636. Portion of peritoneum, taken from abdominal parietes to right of median line ; the surface is the seat of E. 8. numerous tubercles, which have coalesced in many places into a thick, irregular layer. See G37, chap. I., sec. 1, E. G, for history.