Volume 2

Researches into the causes, nature, and treatment of the more prevalent diseases of India, and of warm climates generally. Illustrated with cases, post mortem examinations, and numerous coloured engravings of morbid structures / by James Annesley.

  • James Annesley
Date:
1828
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Researches into the causes, nature, and treatment of the more prevalent diseases of India, and of warm climates generally. Illustrated with cases, post mortem examinations, and numerous coloured engravings of morbid structures / by James Annesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLATE XXIII. VALLERY’S CASE, No. 1. [See p. 98.] EXAMINATION, FOUR HOURS AFTER DEATH. Elongation, Displacement, and morbid Adhesions of the C'cecum and Colon in situ. A. The stomach. B. The jejunum much inflated. C. The intestinum ilium, of a purple-red colour, thickened and contracted in its coats, filled with thick, pultaceous, adhesive matter, and with every appear¬ ance of a strangulated gut. D. The caecum much distended with flatus, and considerably lengthened. E. The head and a portion of the transverse arch of the colon drawn out of its place, forming a long duplicature, and producing a permanent obstruction, with firm cellular adhesions. F. The cellular adhesions.