Contributions to the pathology of the heart / by John Abercrombie.

  • Abercrombie John, 1780-1844.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Contributions to the pathology of the heart / by John Abercrombie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    creased with rapid sinking, and she died about two o’clock, p. m. Dissection.—The brain, lungs, and abdominal viscera were healthy, except diseased mesenteric glands. The pericardium was distended, with about 5xii of a turbid, milky fluid, with flocculent matter floating in it. The whole inner surface of the peri- cardium, and the outer surface of the heart, were covered by a uniform coating of coagulable lymph, of considerable thickness. The substance of the heart was soft and flaccid. To this remarkable case I may add another equal- ly important, which is mentioned by Dr Newman in a late number of Hufeland’s Journal. A man, aged twenty-six, who had been affected with cough for some months, was seized with pneumonic symp- toms on 5th November 1820. After bleeding, and the other usual remedies, he was much relieved; he was free from pain, and had no uneasiness in breath- ing ; cough continued with free expectoration ; and though his pulse continued a little frequent, he was considered as convalescent, and was able to walk about in his chamber. This was his condition on the 12th. During the night he was heard to groan, and in a few minutes was dead. On dissection, the right lung was found hepa- tised, the left shewed traces of inflammation exter- nally, but was otherwise sound. The pericardium was red and thickened, and contained a considerable quantity of yellowish fluid. Its whole inner sur-