An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes : and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body : with engravings / by John Baron, M.D., physician to the general infirmary at Gloucester.

  • John Baron
Date:
1819
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Credit: An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes : and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body : with engravings / by John Baron, M.D., physician to the general infirmary at Gloucester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    by stimulating glysters. On the 5tli of Decem- ber, great obstruction was presented to the throw- ing up of the latter, and they were instantly returned witliout fceces. The uneasiness at the stomach, and the sickness and vomiting, ina*eascd to a most distressing degree J the mouth constantly filled with a bitter phlegm, and she complained of pain at the soles of the feet^ IMatters continued in this way till the 10th of December. On that day, the evacuations from the stomach had a stercoraceous smell, nothing having passed downvvards for some time. On the 14tli, she vomited faeculent -matter, and died ou the following day. On opening the abdomen, it was found that some pints of yellow serum had been effused into a sack composed of tlie thickened and adherent surfaces of the peritonaeum. On removing the fluid, the viscera were seen lying united into one girregularly shaped mass. The omentum was uni*- versally nttaclied to the viscera with whicli it is hi contact, and all tlie otlior parts were firndy bound together. Tlie wliolo, wlion taken out of the bud), had tlie feel and a])])e.irance of a sohd