Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de angina maligna ... / [James Johnstone].

  • James Johnstone
Date:
1773
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de angina maligna ... / [James Johnstone]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * ed with the fame tough white floughs as the * glandsofthe throat. The whole trachea, quite 6 down to its divifion in the lungs, was lined with 6 an infpiflated mucus, in forni of a membrane, 6 remarkably tough and nrmj which, when it 6 came into the lungs, feemed to grow thin and £ difappear: It was fo tough as to require no in- c confxderable iorce to tear it, and came out 6 whole from the. trachea, which it left with s much eafe, and refembled, more than any thing, c both in thicknefs and app e aranee, a fheath of £ thin fhammoy leather. The inner membrane 6 of the trachea was flightly inflamed; the lungs 6 too appeared inflamed, as in peripneumonic c cafes; particularly, the right lobe, on which there < were many large lividfpots, though neither rot* 6 ten or offenfive; and the left lobe had fmalt 6 black fpots on it, refembling thofe tnarks left s under thelkinby gun-powder. IJpon cutting 6 into any of the larger fpots which appeared on 6 the right lobe, a bloody fanies iflued from them, c without frothing ; whereas, upon cutting thofe c parts which appeared found, a whitifh froth, 6 but flightly tinged with blood, followed the * knife. The i
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