The diseases of the Madras famine of 1877-78 / by Alexander Porter.

  • Porter, Alexander.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The diseases of the Madras famine of 1877-78 / by Alexander Porter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Autopsy twenty-one hours after death. Height, 4 feet 10| inches ; weight, 93 lbs. ; no marks on person; rigor mortis absent. Skull.— Scalp and meninges pale ; pia mater reddish, healthy. Brain, 31-§ ozs., firm, healthy. Chest.—Right pleura has recent points lateral adhesion and contains an ounce of straw-coloured serum. Lung, 15| ozs.; livid red; base of upper lobe semi-solid from oedema. Left pleura recent adhesions all over, surface floccy, jelly-like ; an ounce of amber serum in cavity. Lung, 14J ozs.; inflammatory oedema of all, except anterior border of upper lobe. Pericardium moistened with serum. Heart, 7% ozs.; flabby, empty, covered with fat. Abdomen.—Peritoneum pearly, contains 4 ozs. amber serum. Small intestine contained a little white fluid ; mucous coat pale. Large intestine contained a little white fluid ; mucous coat pale with sparse arborescent injection. Stomach large, full of congee ; mucous coat quite white, thin. Liver, 30 ozs., saffron yellow, anaemic, very fatty. Spleen, 7 ozs., plump, of normal con- sistence. Right kidney, 2f ozs., capsule strips easily, flabby, anaemic, fatty. Left kidney, 3 ozs.; like right. Pencreas, 1J ozs.; healthy. Lots of fat in mesentery ; glands normal.