Pathological and surgical observations : including a short course of lectures delivered at the Lock Hospital, and an essay on the surgical treatment of haemorrhoidal tumours / by Henry Lee.

  • Lee, Henry, 1817-1898.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Pathological and surgical observations : including a short course of lectures delivered at the Lock Hospital, and an essay on the surgical treatment of haemorrhoidal tumours / by Henry Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    scribed; and as it will render the series more complete, it is here recorded, in so far as it bears upon the particular point under consideration. “ A mixture of two drachms and a scruple of good pus, diluted with an equal quantity of water, was injected into the right jugular vein. I had no sooner done this, and transfixed the lips of the orifice Avith a pin, than the horse began to heave at the flanks, after which he staggered a few moments and fell; Avhen down he breathed laboriously, thirty-eight times in the minute, and, with scarcely a struggle, and not more than tAvo minutes’ delay, expired. The jugular vein and the right cavities of the heart Avere filled Avith dark coloured currant jelly-like clotted blood. From the manner in Avhich the ex- periment Avas conducted, the introduction of air into the vein Avas impossible. On examining the blood from the right side of the heart, I discoA^ered on it a very large number of corpuscles, measuring, on an average, one tAvo-thousandth of an inch in diameter, and having nuclei not distinguishable from those of pus cells; so numerous Avere they, that it Avas impossible to count them. The lungs Avere intensely congested, particularly at their bases.” Mr. Gamgce inclined to the belief, at the time the experiment Avas made, that the animal had died of asphyxia.* But as in asphyxia, the circulation continues some minutes after the re- * Ib. February 10th, 1854.