Clinical histories, with comments / by Henry Day.

  • Day, Henry.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Clinical histories, with comments / by Henry Day. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    some few days longer before killing them; that is to say, if they did not die from disease as number 1 had died. The other animals continued for the next four days in apparently much the same state as they were in when number 1 died, except that, if any- thing, they moved about even less than they then did, and when they moved at all it was done stifldy, and with a jerk something like a horse with string-halt, not with the natural elastic jump of a rabbit. I now imagined that if their bad food was to give any token of its effects, time enough had elapsed to allow of such effects being seen on an examination, I therefore destroyed the animals by enclosing them in a box with chloroform at the bottom of it. After death I first examined number 3, and as my attention had been attracted to the state of its right eye, I looked at this immediately, and found that the cornea was destroyed by ulceration and the eontents of the anterior chamber had escaped—the limbs were not at all rigid. I then opened the abdomen—the intestines were nearly empty; the stomach contained a rather large amount of undigested food. The mucous membrane of the entire alimentary canal was very red and inflamed, but I saw none of the hard ulcerated glandular bodies that I met with in number 1.