On Bengal dysentery and its statistics, with a notice of the use of large enemata in that disease, and of quinine in remittent fever / [John Macpherson].

  • Macpherson, John, 1817-1890
Date:
1850
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Credit: On Bengal dysentery and its statistics, with a notice of the use of large enemata in that disease, and of quinine in remittent fever / [John Macpherson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. State of large Intestines. State of small Intes¬ tines. State of Liver and Gall-blad¬ der. State of Mesentery, Mesenteric glands or other organs. Remarks. 88. Large intestines instate of slough throughout. • • • • Surface of liver shewed recent cicatrices : ex¬ tensive abscess of right lobe. • • ♦ • Seaman, setat 26-ill a month. 89. Large intestines lined with ulcers, some of them ap¬ parently healing: coats perforated in several places. • • • • Liver hard and granular, with some tubercles. Gall-duct ob¬ structed and gall-bladder full. Lungs tuber¬ cular : some effusion into chest. Old man,— ill for one month before death. 90. Intestines at most depending point in state of slough: rectum thickened and ulcerated. • * • • Liver small and turgid. Spleen slight¬ ly enlarged. iEtat 67— died in 12 days: had im¬ mense her¬ nia. 91. Large intestines thickened, ulce¬ rated and lined with sloughs throughout. • • 9 • Liver small and softened: small abscess. • • • • Seaman, setat 30—died in 17 days. 92. Large intestines lined with fun¬ gous growth, thickened, espe¬ cially near rec¬ tum. • ® • • Liver pale, gra¬ nular and soft. • • • • Soldier, ill about 10 days. 93. Colon,purple spots outside—inside mass of ulcera¬ tion and thicken¬ ing with liche¬ noid granula¬ tions. Healthy. Healthy. » • * • Seaman—died in 8 days, but had just been discharged from hospital cured of dy¬ sentery. 94. Mass of ulceration and thickening of coecum, gave way on being handled —in sigmoid flex¬ ure and rectum less disease. Healthy. Liver one small abscess, size of nutmeg, other¬ wise healthy. • • • • Ill 20 days— setat 54.