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A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels, comprising a new view of the physiology of the heart's action, according to which the physical signs are explained / [James Hope].

  • Hope, James, 1801-1841
Date:
1832]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels, comprising a new view of the physiology of the heart's action, according to which the physical signs are explained / [James Hope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOS op yas A CASES. obstinate vomiting. Two days before death he had multuous, and twice as frequent as the pulse, the heart pulsating about 150 or 160 per minute, while the pulse beat only eighty. Autopsy.—The right lung contains crude tuber- cles over a great extent. Pleura sound. Left lung almost,.universally adherent to the ribs by thick tuberculous false membranes covered with albu- minous flakes: less numerous but more advanced tubercles than in the right lung: some beginning to suppurate. | “gt Pericardium universally adherent és the fee by false membranes from one to three lines. thick, which contain numerous tubercles, in all respects similar to those of the pleuritic false membrane. Heart three or four times as large as natural— hypertrophy of both ventricles, but particularly of the left, of which the walls are very thick and the cavity considerable. In the substance of the walls of the right ventricle is a tuberculous tumor of six or eight lines in thickness and two or three inches in length, formed by a yellowish resistent tissue more homogeneous at the border than in the centre. Besides this principal tumor there exist several smaller, but in the right ventricle exclu- sively. Orifices and great vessels healthy. The ose agt Ss