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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    and lirm as I had seen tliem on other occasions. Eut the peritonaeum, where it lines the abdomen, shewed the diseased structure in the most perfect form. It was very much thickened and tubercu- la ted. In some places, the tubercles were distinct and well defined, having patches of turgid ves-r sels between them; in others, this distinctness of form was not found, the tubercles having coalesced, and given to the surface a rough appearance, with protuberances of various sizes diffused over it. On searching for the omentum, a large irregu- lar shaped tuberculated mass was found, occupying part of the epigastrium and left hypochonchium. It bore some resemblance to a diseased spleen, and for an instant it was thought to be that organ. A little further inquiry pointed out the mistake, and proved the diseased mass to be the omentum. All round it, the peritonaeal coat of the stomach and intestines was much thickened, and in its vicinity, too, the agglutination of the contiguous parts \\a^ greatest.^ * It was this mass which was felt before, but still more distinctly, after the tap])in;^, and under which the fingers could be pushed. Before dissection, I conceived the tumor to have arisen from the agglutination of the intestines.