Metastatic panophthalmitis / by Charles J. Kipp.

  • Kipp, Charles J. (Charles John), 1838-1911.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Metastatic panophthalmitis / by Charles J. Kipp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medical treatment consisted of digitalin gr. i-ioo, strychnin sulph. gr. 1-40 every three hours. Morphine was given occasionally for the relief of pain. He was fed on milk and eggs and in the last week was given eggnog freely. Autopsy, April 12, 1906, by Dr. Charles A. Teeter: Build slight; musculatvire small; no deformities; left foot badly discolored and misshapen; open wounds in left thigh and leg with thin yellowish pus exuding. Skin—yellowish in color, dry and hard. Hair—scanty, shiny and dry. Teeth were in fairly good condition. Muscles were small and flabby; rigor mortis was absent except in elbows. Panniculus was very scanty, there was no oedema present; body- heat was absent; hypostasis was well marked over back and shoulders. Head was not examined internally. Both eyes: found cornea cloudy, partially collapsed and pus in anterior chambers. Eyes, both re- moved. Thorax: Pericardium was not distended; fat somewhat increased. Heart: Auricles distended, filled with fluid, blood and ante- mortem clots; right ventricle slightly en- larged; valves (tricuspid) normal; left ven- tricle was enlarged; the walls hypertrophied slightly; the mitral valves showed some areas of calcification and the aortic valves several areas of recent ulceration and small areas of calcareous deposits; the valvular flaps were completely ulcerated through in places. Acute ulcerative endocarditis. Lungs showed fresh pleuritic adhesions, tear easily;