Carcinoma of Oesophagus, Secondary Implantation, Carcinoma in Stomach, Ulceration, Death from Hemorrhage: Rupture of Portal Vein from a Fall, Death; Loose Bodies in the Peritoneal Cavity; Thoracic Aneurism, Varicose Dilatation of Subcutaneous Thoracic and
Carcinoma of Oesophagus, Secondary Implantation, Carcinoma in Stomach, Ulceration, Death from Hemorrhage: Rupture of Portal Vein from a Fall, Death; Loose Bodies in the Peritoneal Cavity; Thoracic Aneurism, Varicose Dilatation of Subcutaneous Thoracic and
Excerpt from Carcinoma of Oesophagus, Secondary Implantation, Carcinoma in Stomach, Ulceration, Death From Hemorrhage: Rupture of Portal Vein From a Fall, Death; Loose Bodies in the Peritoneal Cavity; Thoracic Aneurism, Varicose Dilatation of Subcutaneous Thoracic and Abdominal Veins, Rupture, Death A man, aged about sixty, was admitted to the Cook County Hospital in February, 1890, complaining of intense abdominal pain and vomiting, death taking place suddenly before any clinical details were obtained. Postmortem ...
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Excerpt from Carcinoma of Oesophagus, Secondary Implantation, Carcinoma in Stomach, Ulceration, Death From Hemorrhage: Rupture of Portal Vein From a Fall, Death; Loose Bodies in the Peritoneal Cavity; Thoracic Aneurism, Varicose Dilatation of Subcutaneous Thoracic and Abdominal Veins, Rupture, Death A man, aged about sixty, was admitted to the Cook County Hospital in February, 1890, complaining of intense abdominal pain and vomiting, death taking place suddenly before any clinical details were obtained. Postmortem examination forty-eight hours after death. The body was greatly emaciated, and the skin was very white. The pericardium was empty; the heart was of normal size, but soft and flabby the cardiac muscle was of a pale gray color with here and there yellow, butter-colored streaks; the semilunar valves were competent. In the left pleural cavity were some firm bands of adhesions the lungs floated and crepitated; on the cut surface they were light red in color. The abdominal cavity was empty and free from adhesions, ex cept about the vermiform appendix, which was bound down by cicatricial bands. The spleen measured 11.5x7.5x2 centimetres; the capsule was wrinkled section showed a pyramidal-shaped area of light yellow color, the base of which corresponded to the sur face of the organ and measured centimetres in its greatest diameter, the height of the pyramid being at centimetres. 'no plugged vessel could be demonstrated. The kidneys were about normal in size, the capsules were free, the cortex sustained the relation to the medullary portion of 1 to 3, the cut surfaces being rather light red in color. The liver and 'the gall bladder showed nothing abnormal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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