On the weight and dimensions of the heart, in health and disease / by Thomas B. Peacock.
- Thomas Bevill Peacock
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the weight and dimensions of the heart, in health and disease / by Thomas B. Peacock. 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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![is also omitted. In the case of the male, 32 years of age, in whom the heart weighed IS oz., there was not only adhesion but extensive ossilication of the pericardium. The cases marked with an asterisk were aneurisms. In two of these in which the heart weighed 8 oz. 8 dr. and 24 oz., the patients were phthisical, and this was also the case in the female in Avhom the heart weighed 12 oz. 8 dr., and the aorta was dilated. Table VII. Welifht of the heart in cases of aortic valvular disease, 'whether obstructive, regurgitant or both. Weights. Males. Females. Obstruct Obst. and Eegurgit. Ages, Obstruct. Obst. and Regm-git. Ages. 8 oz. and 12 dr. 10 „ aud 12 „ 11 „ to 12 oz. 12 „ to 13 „ 14 „ to 15 „ 15 „ to 16 „ 16 „ to 20 „ 20 „ to 25 „ 28 „ 34 „ 1 2 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 8 1 1 Years. 40 aud 57 44-7 45-5 47-7 44-5 18 65 1 1 1 1 1 ] Years. 66 75 70 46 67 44 In several of these cases there was also dilatation or atheromatous disease of the aorta, and generally some thickening of the mitral valve. Table VIII. Weight of the heart in cases of mitral valvular disease. Weights. Males. Age. Females. Age. Years. Y'ears. 8 oz. and 8 dr. 1 27 10 „ and 8 „ 1 23 11 „ 1 17 12 „ aud 12 oz. 8 dr. 2 62 aud 40 14 „ and 14 „ 8 „ 2 29 and 52 15 „ aud 12 dr. 1 39 17 „ and 8 „ 1 36 18 „ 1 21 Of the cases included in this table the male in whom the heart weighed 14 oz., and the two females in whom it weighed 8 oz. 8 dr.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21071706_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
