A probationary essay on some important points connected with the pathology of puerperal fever : submitted to the Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow when candidate for admission ... / by Alexander John Hannay.

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1825
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    on opening, of a very foetid odour ; vascularity of serous surface of intestines; some effusion, not measured, straw-coloured, sunk in water; intes- tines glued together; stomach’s serous surface pale; on margin of liver a coating of yellow lymph. Mucous texture of stomach corrugated and undu- lated ; extensive redness of its surface, and many vessels observed on it. Duodenum covered so thick- ly with vessels, and injected, as to present the appear- ance of a layer of red currant jelly ; some places of considerable redness in the jejunum and in the ilium also, with very numerous ramifications of blood- vessels; the descending portion and sigmoid flex- ture of colon highly vascular, and the mucous coat of it thickened, soft, and easily lacerated from the subjacent texture. Brain rather more vascular than natural; some slight effusion into ventricles. Uterus larger than usual, and much lymph on its serous surface, with dark patches and white shreds hanging on its interior. I have detailed the above case, as being the first of the epidemic 1 had solely under my own care and management—in which I had an opportunity of observing the progress of remedial means; for, the first case I had, was at a considerable distance, (six miles,) that of Mrs. Wither, to whom 1 was