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 XL. PETER CARR’S CASE. [See p. 253.] EXAMINATION, TWO HOURS AFTER DEATH. Fig. 1. — Chronic Dysentery, cartilaginous and gristly Structure of the mucous Membrane of the Colon and Rectum. — The Gut laid open from the Caecum to the Rectum. From the caecum to the transverse arch of the colon there was the appearance of the villous coat having sloughed away; but from this to the sigmoid flexure, the gut had a hard, cartilaginous appearance, with circular prominences throughout the remainder of the bowel to the rectum, where the same hardened, cartilaginous membrane formed transverse lines to the extremity of the rectum. Fig. 2. —WHITE’S CASE. [Seep. 173 —Plate XXXI.] The sigmoid flexure and rectum laid open, shewing the morbid appearances of this part of the large bowels, and a peculiar form of ulceration, as described at page 173.