An inquiry, physiological and pathological, into the proximate cause of cholera / Protheroe Smith.

Date:
1835
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Credit: An inquiry, physiological and pathological, into the proximate cause of cholera / Protheroe Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medical ami Surgical Journal. She died on the 6th of March, and was opened lour hours after death. CASE II. William Wentworth, u*tat. 47, a tine stout well made man, who had never suffered from illness, was seized on 10th March, 1832, with sickness and vomit- ing, and copious rice-colored fluid evacuations. This was attended by violent pain of the bowels, and cramp of the lower extremities. On the following day the cramps left him, but the diarrhoea continued until the 12th, when he was considered to be much better; a relapse however ensued on the 13th, attended with general coldness and blueness of the skin. Stimulants and opium had been used with apparent success, but the blue stage having come on, carried off the patient just at the commencement of the third stage of the disorder. Aitopsy. The body was examined the day after death. On opening it 1 was sensible of the peculiar odour before mentioned. There was great engorgement of the heart, lungs, and intestines, w hich last exhibited a dark- colour ; some hrculent matter and bile were found in the bowels, with an admixture of the rice-coloured fluid; the bladder contained about half a tea-cup full of dark-coloured urine ; the brain shewed evident signs of inflammation, and the vessels of its membranes were tilled w ith a dark grumous blood ; there was also serous effusion into the ventricles. The body exter- nally presented the following appearances : blueness M /