Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1874.

  • Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum
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1875
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Credit: Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, with statistical tables, for the year 1874. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 30—continued. Post-Mortem Notes. a- d f ». Head and Spine. ’S Thorax. Abdomen. Absolute Weights of Principal Organs. Calvaria moderately thick; membranes thickened and s. adherent; 13 oz. of fluid about the brain ; convolu¬ tions flattened; vessels atheromatous and con¬ gested. II Old and recent adhesions of both pleurae; both lungs congested at bases; cheesy nodules throughout upper lobes, less plentiful in lower lobes; no cavities; heart hypertrophied; aorta atheromatous. Peritoneum studded with tubercles, in lower part of abdo¬ men inflamed and adherent, and the tubercles very soft; coats of intestines thickened, softened, and . discoloured; matted together; ulcers in caecum; liver adherent by its capsule. Cerebrum - - 39 Cerebellum - 5 Pons and medulla f Total encephalon 44f Right lung - 19 Left „ - 19 Heart - - 10 Liver - - sof Spleen 4 Right kidney - 4| Left „ - 4^ Calvaria of average thick¬ ness ; dura mater adherent in the course of long sinus; membranes opaque and ad¬ herent ; in pia mater, over anterior portion of right frontal lobe, a cretaceous nodule as large as a pea, in¬ denting the convolution beneath; grey matter adherent in small pieces here and there ; white mat¬ ter rather soft and con¬ gested ; about 1 dr. of fluid in lateral ventricles; dura mater of spinal cord covered with a thick layer of recent lymph, particularly in cer¬ vical and upper dorsal re¬ gions ; osteophytes in spinal arachnoid; vessels of both brain and cord very full of blood. Cretaceous concretions in right pleurae; lungs very much congested and quite black in co¬ lour ; both sides ef heart full of clot; aorta slightly atheromatous. Organs generally congested; calculus in gall-bladder. Cerebrum - - 431: Cerebellum - 5f Pons and medulla ]a Total encephalon 50J Right lung - 37^ Left „ - 31 Heart - - 11£ Liver - - 42| Spleen - - 5f Right kidney - 4i Left „ - 4| Calvaria of average thick¬ ness; dura mater thickened and partially adherent; arachnoid and pia mater thickened and adherent, pia mater congested; con¬ volutions generally wasted, but'most markedly so in the superior portion of both frontal lobes, where there is a considerable depression and softening; white matter softened and congested; about 1 oz. of fluid in lateral ventricles; spinal cord sof¬ tened generally, but the cornua particularly so; circle of Willis incomplete; vessels of brain and cord slightly atheromatous, and all very full of blood. ■ » . .. ... . —j. t- Lungs much congested; about 2 oz. of fluid in pericardium; heart dis¬ tended with fluid blood; left ventricle hypertrophied; aorta slightly atheromatous. Organs congested gall-bladder full of calculi. % Cerebru in - - 38f Cerebellum - 5| Pons and medulla ll Total encephalon 45^ Right lung - 26f Left „ - 28 Heart - - 12 Liver - - 50f Spleen - - 7| Right kidney - 6 Left , - 6f V