On the morbid anatomy of the cattle-plague now prevalent in Britain : in reference to its supposed identity with enteric fever / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
[1865]
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Credit: On the morbid anatomy of the cattle-plague now prevalent in Britain : in reference to its supposed identity with enteric fever / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The prominent lesions of cattle-plague, in addition to those already mentioned, are an aphthous condition of the gums and interior of the mouth, nostrils and vagina, extreme hyperaomia with tendency to ecchymosis of all the mucous membranes, minute ulcers, or sometimes extensive patches of sloughing, followed by deep ulcers of the mucous membrane of the third and fourth stomachs ; in rarer cases, patches of similar sloughing of the mucous membrane of the larynx, interlobular emphysema of the lungs, or even emphysema of the general areolar tissue of the body, haemorrhages beneath the endocardium, and an unusually dark condition of the blood. Printed by J. W. Roche, 68, Paradise Street, Rotherliithe.