The retrospective address, delivered at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Leeds, August 2nd and 3rd, 1843 / by Thomas Shapter.

  • Thomas Shapter
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1843
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Credit: The retrospective address, delivered at the eleventh anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Leeds, August 2nd and 3rd, 1843 / by Thomas Shapter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sisted of inspissated bile. They are evidently en- titled to be called calculi of the liver. They are about the tenth of an inch in length, and one- sixteenth in width, slightly curved and kidney- shaped, very light, ten weighing only one grain ; their surfaces are covered over with ridge-like reticulations.* Skin, ^c.—Dr. Hayn-]' has described a case of that singular affection, the indurated cellular tissue, in which the muscular system was the seat of the disease. The muscles were chano;ed into a hard solid substance, of a vitreous and almost transparent aspect, cutting with a noise analogous to that of scirrhous tissue. When examined by the micro- scope their structure was found completely changed, being formed of fine longitudinal parallel fibres, possessing great extensibility, excepting here and there where portions of healthy fibre still remained. Dr. AdvenaJ has described the occurrence, in the form of an epidemic, of what he terms induratio theccB cellidosi colli, the pseudo-erysipelas sub-tendi- nosum colli of Ludwig. He says that it had a dangerous, and in some cases a fatal course. It was ushered in by febrile symptoms, followed by a wooden-hard tumour of the cellular tissue surround- ing the submaxillary gland, while the gland itself was free from swelling. The tumour would extend from the angle of the jaw to the chin, and fre- quently draw into the hardening process the cellular tissue between the top of the trachea and cavity of * ride plate. t Caspar's Wochcnschrift. X Berlin Medicinischs Zciiun(/.