Manual of practical toxicology : condensed from Dr. Christison's Treatise on poisons : with notes and additions / by J.T. Ducatel.

  • Julius Timoleon Ducatel
Date:
1833
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Credit: Manual of practical toxicology : condensed from Dr. Christison's Treatise on poisons : with notes and additions / by J.T. Ducatel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    176. In the case of a boy who died in twelve hours, the inner membrane of the throat and gul- let was found almost entirely disorganized and re- duced to a pulp, with blood extravasated between it and the muscular coat. The inner coat of the stomach was red, in two round patches destroyed and the patches covered with a clot of blood; its outer coat, as well as all the other abdominal vis- cera, was sound. 177. In two chronic cases (170) the mischief was more general, the whole peritonaum being condensed, the omentum dark and turgid, the in- testines glued together by lymph, the external coats of the stomach thick, the villous coat almost all destroyed, what remained of it and near the pylorus ulcerated, the pyloric orifice of the sto- mach plugged up with lymph so as barely to ad- mit a small probe. 178. In a patient who died of stricture of the gullet (171) the intestines were sound, the inner surface of the stomach red, especially towards the cardia, the inner and muscular coats of the gullet thiekened, and firmly incorporated together by effused lymph, the inner coat here and there want- ing, the passage of the gullet every where con- tracted, and to such a degree about two inches above the cardia as hardly to pass a common probe. Sect. II.—Of the Alkaline Nitrates, and of Lime. 179. The Nitrate of Potassa, [nitre, salt- petre, sal-prunella,] is the more important of the 8*