An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities which sometimes happens to lying-in women.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1801
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling in one or both of the lower extremities which sometimes happens to lying-in women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ (53 ] do shew that the absorbents have been ruptured in the living body by their own contractile power.12 And though they were 12 Medical Records and Researches 1798, Art. vii. p. S6 “ Three instances of obstruction of the thoracic t( duct, with some experiments, shewing the effects of “ tying that vessel, by Mr. Astley Cooper, Lecturer in (( surgery, and assistant Lecturer in Anatomy, of St. “ Thomas’s Hospital.” EXPERIMENT I. “ The extremity of the thoracic duct of a living dog 4( was tied. The dog died 48 hours after the duct had “ been tied.—On opening the abdomen many of the “ viscera were obscured by an effusion of chyle, See. t( These appearances were owing to the rupture of i( the reccptaeulum chyli,which in the dog is very large. Experiment 2d. <c Tied the thoracic duct of a dog. i( He died on the 5th day. EXAMINATION-Chvle “ and lymph had been extravasated in so large a quan- u tity, as to have entirely concealed the aorta and vena. u cava. The receptaculum chyli had burst, and it was “ from this part that the fluids had escaped. The tho- “ racic duct was much distended with chyle, the valves ts having prevented its escape by regurgitation.” Mr. Cooper says “ The contractile powers of the “ absorbents are. proved by the experiments to be very “ strong, for it appears that their action is sufficient to