Cases of organic diseases of the heart : with dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases : read before the counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society / by John C. Warren, M.D.

  • Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Date:
1811
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    attendant, and made no attempts to lie down for some days previous*. DISSECTION, SIXTEEN HOURS AFTER DEATH. The skin was of a yellow colour. The inferior extremities, quite to the groins, were (Edematous. The left cavity of the thorax was filled with water; the right contained only a small quantity. The pleura costalis, on the left side opposite to the heart, was thickened and covered with a very thick flocculent coat of coagulated lymph, and the peri- cardium opposite to it had the same marks of inflam- mation. The lungs on that side were pushed up into a narrow space. They were dense and dark coloured. The pericardium contained little more than the usual quantity of water. The heart, which exhibited marks of some inflammation on its surface, was asto- nishingly large, and firm in proportion. Its cavities were principally filled with coagulum. The semi- lunar valves of the pulmonary artery had their bases slightly ossified, and the remaining part thickened. There were only two valves of the aorta, and these were disorganized by the deposition of ossific mat- ter about their bases, and a fleshlike thickening of the other partf. The parietes of the heart, especially of the left ventricle, were greatly thickened, and somewhat ossified near the origin of the aorta. The liver had the same appearance as in case second. * The symptoms of fliis case were related tome by Dr. Rand, sen. t See plate first.