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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![disease, presents an example. Near tlie base of the lobe were two or three masses of consolidated tissue, of a dark colour, Avhich sank in water, and readily broke down under pressure. Their cut surface was granular ; the tissue between tough and crepitant, as in its normal condition. The following particulars of the lungs of a female, aged 32, who died on the 34th day of disease, exhibit a condition of the pulmonary tissue which appears intermediate between the non-granular and the granular consolidation. The right lung weighed IS]- oz.; was crepitant throughout; felt more solid behind than before ; Avas of a dirty red colour; and floated in water when cut in pieces. The left lung weighed 15J oz. (i.e. was comparatively heavy); its most de- pending portion (the subject being on its back) felt solid, contained little air, sank in water, broke down readily under pressure, but had not the appearance of solidified lung in the second stage of either the so-called vesicular or intcrvesicular pneumonia. Lobar granular consolidation was, in three instances, conjoined with the foregoing conditions; i.e. in one of the three cases with abruptly defined lobular granular consolida- tion ; in one with granular consolidation, the outline of which was not abruptly defined; and in the third it was conjoined with circumscribed ?io?i-granular consolidation. Typhus Fever.—Thirty-five cases are eligible for analysis. In two of these thirty-five the lungs were healthy in all par- ticulars. In a third case, the posterior congestion was so slight, that it could scarcely be considered a deviation from icalth. Tlie remaining thirty-two cases may be thus grouped. 1st, Three cases of simple congestion of the posterior part )f the lungs. In two of the three, both lungs were equally iflected; in one the left lung was more congested than the •ight. 2nd, Three cases of congestion of the posterior part of the ungs, with diminished consistence of the congested parts. In >ne of the three, both lungs were equally affected; in another, he right was more deeply diseased than the left; in the third, he left lung only was in this condition, the posterior part of he right being simply congested. 3rd, Eleven cases of congestion of the posterior part of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2192272x_0133.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
