An account of a case of encephaloid disease of the endocarium / [Edward Latham Ormerod].

  • Ormerod, Edward Latham, 1819-1873.
Date:
1847]
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Credit: An account of a case of encephaloid disease of the endocarium / [Edward Latham Ormerod]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the case now under consideration. In Dr. Sims’ case all the disease was, “ in the appendix to the right auricle, a mass of adventitious deposit the size of a small walnut/’ which the context does not allow us to consider as anything but cancerous. The tumours at the apex in the present case, with their round form, and their sole connection by a narrow pedicle either with the endocardium or with the fibres of en- ceplialoid matter which were interlaced with the carnese columnse, bore so close a resemblance to ordinary globular ve¬ getations, that, but for the remainder of the growth, it might have been difficult to decide upon their exact nature. Mr. Hewett’s first case, as far as the brief notice in the Medical Gazette will allow me to infer, stands next as illus¬ trating the mode in which these masses increase in volume, the same being also discernible in the tumours near the base of the heart in the present case; for here the analogy ceases between these growths and globular vegetations, a pendulous lobular mass supplying the place of the round body before seen, and infiltrated cancer of the muscular substance of the heart spreading from the widened base of the tumour which originated in the endocardium. [From Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, Yol. xxx.] Printed by Richard Kinder, Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey.