Researches on phthisis: anatomical, pathological and therapeutical / by P. C. A. Louis.
- Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
- Date:
- 1844
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Researches on phthisis: anatomical, pathological and therapeutical / by P. C. A. Louis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Head. Clear-coloured serous infiltration under the arachnoid investing the convex surface of the brain; somewhat less than a tahlespoonful of similar fluid in each lateral ventricle ; a table- spoonful and a half in the inferior occipital fossae. Entire ence- phalon somewhat soft. Neck. One of the lymphatic glands on the left side was enlarged to the size of an almond in its husk, unnaturally hard, reddish, and studded with several yellowish and opaque spots, evidently of tuberculous character. Epiglottis, larynx, and trachea natural. Chest. About three pints and a half of transparent reddish serosity in the left pleural cavity; the lung reduced to a very small bulk and covered, like the costal pleura, with a red coloured and tolerably firm false membrane, less than half a line [less than 1 millimeter] thick. The tissue of the organ was of grayish colour and healthy, but contained no air; the bronchi, of bright red colour, had not undergone any notable thickening. —A few cellular adhesions on the right side; at the apex of the lung a cavity of medium size, partly filled with a turbid greenish fluid, in the midst of which appeared a body of slightly grayish colour, streaked, like the pulmonary tissue, with black lines, of oblong form, somewhat flattened, measuring one inch and four lines [32 millimeters] in length by ten lines [20 mil- limeters] in breadth, light, soft, somewhat elastic, exhibiting a very slight rosy tint in its interior; and, in a word, perfectly similar in all its properties to a fragment of lung of equal di- mensions, that had been lying in water for some time. It was without any disagreeable smell, and presented no peduncle on its surface. The cavity was lined with a false membrane of tolerable consistence, about a quarter of a line [half a milli- meter] thick, and resting upon sound pulmonary tissue; on the surface of the membrane, at two points opposite each other, appeared projections of about one line [2 miUimeters] in ele- vation, and formed of the extremities of two bronchial ramifi- cations. The remainder of the organ was slightly engorged, but free from tubercle, gray granulations, and indeed a trace even of any other organic lesion. The bronchi were pale and thin,— heart scarcely two thirds of its natural size; aorta healthy. Abdomen. About a pint and three quarters [1 Htre] of lemon-coloured transparent serosity in the cavity of the abdo-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21513235_0062.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
