Three cases of inflammation of the heart, with the appearances on dissection / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, Jun., 1773-1832.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Three cases of inflammation of the heart, with the appearances on dissection / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF INFLAMMATION OF THE HEART. fllHE two first of the following cases came under my own ob- servation when I had the temporary charge of the Clinical ward ; and it is a very singular coincidence, that they were both admitted on the same day. The last occurred to Dr opens, to whose friendship and liberality I am indebted for it. .Hospital records compensate, by their authenticity, for many im- Son STil, Th™S a,'e *|lere^ore printed, without after”, tion, from the journals kept at the time. For a somewhat similar reason, the remarks I have subjoined are part of those then de- veredto my pupils; they were necessarily composed in a very short time and might have been improved by subsequent re- flection and research; but my object is merely to increase our store of facts on an important disease, and to Subjoin such ob- ~oof the fit Case I. Robert Baxter, aet 28._March II, 1815,-Miner . ComP}*™ of severe headach, and a gnawino- pai“ thtk vo gion of the stomach, not increased by pressure hm mi, gravated on taking food ; with a seni nf l ’ii ™uch aS~ part of the abdotL, working ds°fh^ “ the the alimentary canal to his throat when hi fl C°Urse of suffocation would ensue This foelin J S as lf 3mmediate though not always, at the beginning of each mwxXn^h’h' a very copious flow of urine annrm^ht™ Pai°xysm, he has table-beer. During the fit his belly swells'1 mid it ife]C°1°Ur of heved by a great discharge of flatu? by the mouth hH ^ sensible of foaming at the mouth dm-lL th’ He ls not standing, is he thrown to the ground but ber^0^81115 .nor’ not to be able to stand withomTsis’tance Tl S° gi^ as of great debility, want of annetite * i^ a So complains agreeable taste^in g Slfft ™d “ d- aafnral • ^‘“1’reStlh a'b °'' ^ ^ngt