Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings, from originals by the author : with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. : designed to constitute an appendix to works on the practice of physic, and to facilitate the study of morbid anatomy in connexion with symptoms / by J. Hope.

  • Hope, James, 1801-1841.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings, from originals by the author : with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. : designed to constitute an appendix to works on the practice of physic, and to facilitate the study of morbid anatomy in connexion with symptoms / by J. Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    respiratory murmur remain complete. (Vid. Laennec, Traite, i. p. 531.) ]My colleague, Dr. Sims, recently detected a case with great penetration by dulness of the right lung coinciding with immense dilatation of the external jugular veins, for which, as the circula- tion was little embarrassed, and the patient had not phthisical symptoms, nothing could account but a tumour compressing the descending cava, which was the case. Chapter XI. MELANOSIS. Melanosis (from jasXa^, niger) is an accidental production, of which the distinctive character is a black colour. It was first described by Laennec in 1806. The four forms into which it is distributed by Andral, are, I. masses, encysted or not; 2. infiltrated in different tissues; 3. layers on the unattached surface of membranous organs; 4. liquid, either pure or mixed with other liquids. The fourth form is not recognized by Laennec, since he regards melanosis as a tissue. To those who, with Andral, consider it to be merely a simple deposit of colouring matter, its liquid state is as con- ceivable as its solid. I. Melanosis in Masses.—This has two stages or states: A, the solid; B, the softened. A.—In the solid state it presents the following characters : the colour varies from a yellowish-brown to a bistre-brown, a soot- black, as in Fig. 39, and a raven-black, as in Fig. 40. It stains white paper like Indian-ink. The form of the masses is some- times exactly spherical, as in Fig. 39, and sometimes irregular, and even lobulated. The surface is either smooth, rough, or mamellated like a mulberry. The consistence varies between that of tallow and that of a lymphatic gland. The size, sometimes