Report on some cases of dissecting aneurism / by Dr. Peacock.

  • Peacock, Thomas B. (Thomas Bevill), 1812-1882.
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[1863], [©1863]
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    REPRINTED FROM THE PATHOLOGICAL TRANSACTIONS, VOL. XIV., 1862-63. Report on cases of Dissecting Aneurism. By dr. PEACOCK. The specimens presented by Dr. Bristowe and Mr. Gaskoin are ex- amples of what has been described as Dissecting Aneurisms in the early stage. It has generally been supposed that Lsennec was the first writer who applied the term dissecting'''' to this form of aneurism, but it has been recently shown by M. Broca that M. Maunoir employed the same designation, and clearly described the formation of aneurisms of this kind in his. work pubUshed in 1802. A characteristic case is also re- lated from the notes of Mr. John Burns, by Mr. Allan Bums, in his work on Diseases of the Heart and Aneurism, which appeared in 1809. Till recently, however, but few cases of dissecting aneurism have been placed on record, and it is only of late years that the nature of the affection has been clearly understood. In 1837, Rokitansky* published several cases, and in 1843 f without any knowledge of the previous memok of Rokitansky, I collected nine- teen cases in a paper on the subject. Some few others might have been added from more extended research in the periodicals of this coim- try. In 1847 % Dr. Crisp referred to twenty-one cases, and in 1849 § I brought together, in a second memoir, references to thirty-eight. Since that period the number of published cases has been greatly extended, and I have recently been able without difficulty to collect eighty instances in which the affection existed in well-marked forms. Of this number, eight, including the two reported upon, are contained in our own Transactions, three are published in the Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, five in tlie Dublin Journal, sLx in the Bulletin of the Societe Anatomiquc of Paris, two in the Memoires of the Societe de Biologic, and not less than twenty-one—of which, how- ever, some appeared in the previous memoir—^liave been published by Rokitansky in liis recent work on the more important diseases of arteries.II lliat work also contains several other observations bearing upon the pathology of the Dissecting Aneurisms. Tlic remaining cases are scattered through the periodicals of this country, the United States, • Ocsterr. Med. Jahrb., quoted in Schmidt's Jahrbuchor, 1839, p. 30. t Ed. Mod. and Sur;,'. Journal, vol. Lx. p. 276. X Structure, DiHoaso.s, &c., of tho Blood-vossols. § London and Edinburgh Monthly Journal of Medical Science, vol. ix. (N, S. vol. iii.) p. 1052. II Wion, 1862. B