Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![the norma] condition of the pericardium observed. In that case a few shreds of lymph were attached to the pericardium, covering the auricle. In every case the fluid retained the yellow hue proper to it, and its amount Avas considered natural. Five of the cases were examined respectively 30, 32, 36, and 58 hours after death ; three in the summer and two in the winter months. Typhus Fever.—Excluding seven cases not available for analysis, there remain thirty-six for consideration. In thirty-one cases no abnormal appearance was observed. In five the serosity contained in the pericardium was of a more or less deep red colour. These five cases were examined respectively 16, 24, 24, 40, and 48 hours after death: four during the summer and one during the winter months. That the red hue was due to the transudation of the colouring matter of the blood, and not the consequence of effusion of blood, was proved by its containing no red corpuscles, by the number of epithelium scales diffused throughout it, by the deep red staining of the posterior wall of the auricles, and by a shade of discoloration bounding the edges of the veins coursing over the surface of the heart. This cadaveric transudation of a solution of the colouring matter of the blood into the serosity contained in the peri- cardium, is another example of the greater tendency to decay impressed on the body by typhus than by typhoid fever; for it may be observed that the period that elapsed after death, before the above five cases were examined, was exceeded by that before which five of the cases of typhoid fever were opened. One of the former, in fact, was inspected in the month of December, only 16 hours after death. Three of these five patients Avere less than forty years of age; the one last referred to was only twenty-two, so that neither difference in age, nor external conditions, was the cause of the want of similarity between the two diseases with respect to the change under consideration. HEART AND ITS CONTENTS. Typhoid Fever.—Excluding those cases in which the chest was not examined, and those which survived more than 35](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2192272x_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
