A practical guide for making post-mortem examinations : $b and for the study of morbid anatomy, with directions for embalming the dead, and for the preservation of specimens of morbid anatomyThomas, A. R. (Amos Russell)
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A practical guide for making post-mortem examinations : $b and for the study of morbid anatomy, with directions for embalming the dead, and for the preservation of specimens of morbid anatomy
Thomas, A. R. (Amos Russell)
Anatomy, Pathological; Autopsy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
_Metrophlebitis._ Inflammation of the venous channels and lymphatics of
the uterus, is a very frequent cause of the fatal termination of cases
of puerperal fever. Tonnellé found it present in one hundred and
thirty-two cases out of two hundred and twenty-two. Besides the
appearance of the vessels common to ordinary phlebitis, we find the
uterus studded with small abscesses which may be traced to the vessels.
The lymphatics may be primarily and coincidently affected, or they may
be attacked separately and secondarily; the former is the more frequent.
They present the same varicose appearance as the veins, and are
thickened and distended with the purulent or sanious products of the
inflammation.
_Puerperal Peritonitis_, is the lesion most commonly associated with
puerperal fever. It may be confined to the surface of the organ,
particularly to the part surrounding the neck, or may involve more or
less entirely the whole sac. In the sthenic forms, the appearances
presented, resemble those of ordinary peritonitis. In the low typhoid
forms, there is a peculiar absence of congestion and redness. The
ordinary character of the exudation, is a copious effusion of an
aplastic character, of a dirty-yellow, greenish, or brownish hue, in
which flocculent particles of lymph are found floating, while but small
patches of a thin, non-coherent exudation, are observed in the
peritoneal sac. The smell of the fluid is distinctive, differing from
anything found in the human body in health or disease, and after having
been once noticed, cannot fail to be recognized.
Extra-uterine Pregnancy.
This species of gestation may be considered under the following
varieties, receiving their names according to the part of the passage
where the ovule becomes fixed:
1. Abdominal Pregnancy.
2. Tubo-abdominal Pregnancy.
3. Tubal Pregnancy.
4. Interstitial Tubo-uterine Pregnancy.
5. Utero-tubal Pregnancy.
1. _Abdominal Pregnancy._ This includes all cases in which the
fecundated ovule fails to engage in the tube. Three varieties may occur.
The ovule may remain in the ruptured ovisac and there be developed,
giving rise to an _internal ovarian_ pregnancy. Should it after escaping
from the Graafian vesicle adhere to the surface of the ovary, we have an
_external ovarian_ pregnancy. Finally, if the ovule, escaping from the
ovary, fall into the peritoneal cavity, and there undergo development, a
_peritoneal_ pregnancy results. In the last class, the points to which
the ovule may attach itself are exceedingly numerous. The placenta has
been found attached to the peritoneum covering the right or left iliac
fossa, sometimes to a part of the small or large intestine, and
sometimes to the anterior wall of the abdomen.
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