Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach / by C. Handfield Jones.

  • Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach / by C. Handfield Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yellowly, in the fourtli volume of the Medico-Chirur- gical Transactions. Philip Nicholson, a man ahout thirty years of age, was hanged on Penenden Heath, near Maidstone, on the 23rd of August, 1813. He was greatly convulsed while hanging, and died unusually hard. The body was opened the following day at three o'clock in presence of Dr. Yellowly, who thus describes the state of the stomach: The whole of the abdominal viscera were deeply con- gested with dark-coloured blood. The external vessels of the stomach were very turgid, and its inner surface was everywhere coated by dark- colom-ed, clotted blood. This adhered pretty firmly to the mucous membrane, but came off, though with some difficulty, when the stomach was put into water. Much of it, however, continued to hang about the folds in the great end, though the other parts were freed. Where the blood was washed off, the whole surface of the mucous coat was red. In this instance, great congestion of the stomach was rapidly brought on by strangulation; and its most striking effects, as seen in the dead body, were uniform redness of the mucous membrane and the extravasation of clotted blood upon it. This clotted blood coated the whole inner surface of the stomach, and adhered firmly to it, and had evidently escaped, not at one spot from a 1 large ruptured vessel, but by exhalation from every part ( of the free surface of the membrane. A near approach to the sudden strangulation which t the hangman inflicts is presented to us in severe epileptic t fits, which are not unfrequently followed by vomiting of 1 blood and by the discharge of blackened and altered E