On the temperature of the body as a means of diagnosis in phthisis and tuberculosis / by Sydney Ringer.

Date:
1865
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Credit: On the temperature of the body as a means of diagnosis in phthisis and tuberculosis / by Sydney Ringer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and at the extreme apex quite air] ess. On section, some cretaceous masses seen at the apex, and in the neighbourhood of these see some bodies having the same characters as those seen in the inferior lobe of the left lung. A very few also found scattered through the lower lobe. No tubercle in the omentum, nor in the perito- neum covering any of the abdominal organs. Liver, normal in size, looks healthy. Capsule strips off readily. By iodine it gave evidences of very early albumenoid disease. Kidneys healthy; not affected by a solution of iodine. Spleen enlarged. Section firm. Has a translucent appearance, and is studded by bodies looking like boiled sago. Gives albumenoid reaction with solution of iodine. Contains no tubercle. Mesenteric glands give evidence of early albu- menoid degeneration with iodine solution. Get the same reaction in the mucous membrane of the stomach and small and large intestines. The reaction not obtained in the bladder. The intestines were most extensively ulcerated throughout; in some places almost the whole of the mucous membrane was involved. In the floor of some of these see little bodies looking like tubercle; but too few to have caused the ulceration. The ulcers, moreover, have not the characters of tuber- cular ulcers. Some ulcers seen in the large intestines.