Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings from originals by the author; with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. ... / by J. Hope.

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1834
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Credit: Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy : adapted to the elements of M. Andral, and to the Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, being a complete series of coloured lithographic drawings from originals by the author; with descriptions and summary allusions to cases, symptoms, treatment, &c. ... / by J. Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case.—Inflammation of the uterus and its appendages, and of the intestinal peritoneum, fatal on the fourth day after par- turition. (Lee, on Dis. of Women, p. 31.) Fig. 201.—An ovary containing a yellow friable deposition, like scrofulous lymph, partly in the vesicles, and partly in the paren- chyma. The latter is grey, tough, and spotted with vascularity. Case.—Patient, set. 40, had soap-like induration with enlarge- ment of the liver (see Fig. 82) ; also enlargement and induration of the spleen. She had had hemiplegia, and died worn out by a surgical affection. Fig. 202.—Absorbent vessels of the broad ligament filled with pus. They form yellow, irregular, knotty lines, more or less distinctly seen through the peritoneum. Case.—Inflammation of the ovaria fatal on the third day after delivery. The left ovarium was reduced to a broken- down, flocculent pulp ; and, on the same side, the ab- sorbents of the broad ligament and uterus were filled with pus. The veins and muscular structure were healthy. (Dr. Lee, on Dis. of Women, p. 84.) Figs. 203 and 204.—Crural phlebitis, or inflammation of the iliac and femoral veins, extending to the vena cava. Vena Cava. Fig. 203.—Coats of the vessel considerably thickened, and the internal, where visible, of a rose colour : its whole cavity is occupied by a coagulum, dis- tending it to its utmost, and terminating in a loose pointed extremity, about an inch below the entrance of the vena cava hepatica. The coagulum, b, b, is covered, with a membranous-like investiture a, a, a, of a bright red colour in parts, and throughout adhering firmly, and in many places inseparably, to the inner lining of the vein. The substance within it varied in consistence and colour: in some parts it presented the appearance of coagulable lymph ; in others, it was a pultaceous dull yellow mass,