--------------------------+-----------------+------------------------- | Period | Heads of Cases. | of secondary | Post-mortem | inflammation. | appearances. --------------------------+-----------------+------------------------- CASE IV. Elizth. | A few days after| Dark-coloured serum, Mackintosh, æt. 25. | the appearance | mixed with shreds of Inflamed bursa patellæ; | of the | recently effused lymph, erysipelatous inflammation| erysipelatous | in the cavity of the in the neighbourhood of | inflammation; | left pleura; large the right axilla; sudden | three days | quantities of suppression of the | before death. | seropurulent fluid, catamenia; rigor; periton-| | with recently effused itis; tongue covered with | | lymph, in the yellowish white coating; | | peritoneal cavity. sickness; "catching pains"| | in the epigastric region. | | | | CASE V. James Stevens, æt.| Twenty-seven | Bloody fluid in the 46. Punctured wound of the| days after the | cavity of the left finger whilst opening a | injury; about | pleura; pus in the rabbit; diffuse cellular | seven days | left elbow-joint. inflammation of the right | before death. | arm; spasmodic and | | "catching pains", princip-| | ally referred to the | | epigastrium; expectoration| | of bloody fluid. | | | | CASE VI. William | Twenty days | Cavity of the knee- Collins, æt. 36. Bruise of| after the | joint containing a the patella, caused by the| accident; | quantity of thick wheel of a carriage; | three days | grumous fluid, apparent recovery; erysip-| before his | apparently a mixture elatous redness over the | death. | of blood and synovia; same knee; rigor; rapid | | fibrous degeneration pulse; hot skin, followed | | of a portion of the by perspirations, pains in| | cartilage of the the head, restlessness, | | patella; turbid serum delirium. | | in the sub-arachnoid | | cellular tissue; | | bloody puncta in the | | brain, larger and more | | numerous than natural; | | posterior part of both | | lungs gorged with | | blood.