The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 19, November 7, 1840 — John Shaqi
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 19, November 7, 1840Various
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The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 19, November 7, 1840
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Ireland -- Periodicals
by Antommarchi; though, as we have said before, the illustrious sufferer
himself, with better judgment, referred the mischief to the stomach, as
its seat and source; and he was perfectly right, as the event proved.
This organ was found most extensively disorganised: in fact, it was
ulcerated all over like a honeycomb. The focus of the disease was exactly
the spot pointed out by Napoleon--the pylorus, or lower end where the
intestines begin. At this place I put my finger into a hole, made by an
ulcer, that had eaten through the stomach, but which was stopped by a
slight adhesion to the adjacent liver. After all, the liver was free from
disease, and every organ sound except the stomach. Several peculiarities
were noticed about the body. He appeared at some time to have had an
issue open in the arm, and there was a slight mark, like a wound, in
the leg, but which might have been caused by a suppurating boil. The
chest was not ample, and there was something of feminine delicacy in
the roundness of the arms and the smallness of the hands and feet. The
head was large in proportion to the body, with a fine, massy, capacious
forehead. In other respects there were no remarkable developements for
the gratification of phrenologists. The diseased state of the stomach was
palpably and demonstrably the cause of death; and how Napoleon could have
existed for any time with such an organ, was wonderful, for there was not
an inch of it sound.--_Biography of a Surgeon._
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