Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta; With Some Remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the System of Quarantine as at Present Conducted Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...oedema of cellular texture of right side of neck; second ganglion of pueumu-gastric nerve unusually vascular; aapera arteria unduly red; the inferior por-tions of both lungs hepatized; inferior lobe of left lung very soft; weight of spleen about half a pound, very soft In neither of these five cases were there any symptoms noticed indicative of the unusual lesions discovered after death, excepting in the second, in which the pulmonary affection might be considered as connected with cough, --slight at first, and before death troublesome. In this last mentioned instance, the general character of remittent fever was sustained, in the well marked exacerbations and remissions of the disease. Such a masking of lesions in relation to symptoms is not uncommon, nor more than might be expected from experience in fevers generally, and especially when accompanied with delirium, or having a tendency to it. Under excitation of the brain, or the reverse, whether in mania or amentia, in furious or in low and muttering delirium, diseased states of other important organs are commonly latent, and advance often to a fatal result without materially affecting their functional actions, --at least, according to ordinary observation, unassisted by the best methods of medical examination. TABLE, SHEWING THE PRINCIPAL APPEARANCES NOTICED IN INSTANCES RETURNED AS REMITTENT-FEVER, AND, IT IS SUPPOSED, ERRONEOUSLY SO. i IAgeofP-. tient.Duration of DUttue n Days.SJ 1iAutopiia. Hou lifter Ieelh.MorbU Appennm. i Corfu,3969Nov. 13,7Much fluid in tissue of pia mater, and in the ventricles and at the base of the brain; two ounces of serum in the pericardium; the lungs exceedingly diseased, abounding in minute tubercles, in different stages of soft-ening, and in the..