Case of diffuse inflammation of the cellular substance of the side, followed by a series of uncommon symptoms, and terminating fatally : with the appearances on dissection / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Andrew Duncan
Date:
1824]
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Credit: Case of diffuse inflammation of the cellular substance of the side, followed by a series of uncommon symptoms, and terminating fatally : with the appearances on dissection / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    above it; their relative situations being according to their gravity. On the 15th, an attempt was made to lessen the suppurating surface, by procuring the adhesion of the sides of the sac by pressure; but it was obliged to be discontinued, in consequence of the severity of the cough it excited. On the 10th, however, after enlarging the exter- nal opening, the pressure could be borne, and from this time the discharge diminished rapidly. She had smart rigors on the 17th; diarrhoea set in on the 19th, requiring the use of opium, and hectic fever was established. On the 29th, the wound was sounded by a probe, which could be introduced upwards or forwards its whole length, and about an inch and a half back- wards or inwards. On the 30th, she had some vomiting,'during which air was observed to be expelled from the wound with considerable force and some noise, and on the 3d of December she left the Hospital at her own desire. On the 1 ] th, death put an end to her sufferings; and her body was examined at her own house on the 12th, in the presence of Dr Pitcairn, who had formerly attended her, and of myself, by Dr Craigie, lecturer on anatomy and physiology, to whom I am indebted for the following accurate and minute ac- count of the appearances observed. On removing the integuments of the right side of the chest, and towards the neck, a small superfi- B