Notices of the abnormalities of serous membranes / by Lawson Tait.

  • Tait, Lawson, 1845-1899.
Date:
1869
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    NOTICES OP THE ABNORMALITIES OF SEROUS MEMBRANES. In putting on record a description of some abnormalities which I have recently found in the pericardium and peritoneum, I am actuated by the consideration that in one case there existed a peculiarity of the arrangement of the peritoneum, which docs not seem to have been hitherto observed, and in the other two instances the peculiarities observed confirm facts already noticed by others. Case I.—Congenital Absence of the Pericardium.—A. P., aged twenty-nine, presented an extremely anemic condition. A year before I saw her the right mamma had been removed for malignant disease, at St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester. For some months after her recovery from the operation she acted as a barmaid, and enjoyed perfect health. About seven months after the operation she began to find that on any unusual amount of exertion she became breathless, and this affection increased so rapidly that in two months more she was entirely disqualified for work. Her condition, when I saw her, indicated serious disease; and from the physical signs, I diagnosed mitral constriction, with perfect inelasticity of the valvular orifice. The question occurred, » Vide Med. Press and Circular, .July, 1868.