Boylston medical prize dissertations for the years 1819 and 1821 : Experiments and observations on the communication between the stomach and the urinary organs, and On the propriety of administering medicine by injection into the veins / By E. Hale, jun.

  • Enoch Hale
Date:
1821
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Credit: Boylston medical prize dissertations for the years 1819 and 1821 : Experiments and observations on the communication between the stomach and the urinary organs, and On the propriety of administering medicine by injection into the veins / By E. Hale, jun. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    probably occasioned by an ecchymosis of the blood through the orifice in the vein, which was left open at the time of the operation. This animal was to-day made to take a quantity of an infusion of rhubarb, [see Experiment iii.] and its health afterwards was not so good. For rather more than a week it was very dull and inactive, and scarcely ate any thing. It then grew better for the space of another week, and ate freely. On the second of March, (three weeks after the operation,) at ten o'clock in the morning, it seem- ed to be nearly or quite as well as before the experiment. But at about two in the afternoon, it was found dead, and a large quantity of fresh blood upon the floor beside it. I was ill at the time, and was not able to examine this animal until several days after its death; in the mean time it had received some injury, which render- ed it impracticable to ascertain with precision the state of the wound, and of the parts con- cerned. There was a pretty large sac, which seemed to have been filled with a white soft caseous substance. There were also still some more distinct remains of extravasated blood ; and as the blood-vessels were empty, there is no room to doubt that this cavity had burst, and that the animal died from hemorrhage in conse- quence.