On the morbid anatomy of the cattle-plague now prevalent in Britain : in reference to its supposed identity with enteric fever / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
[1865]
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Credit: On the morbid anatomy of the cattle-plague now prevalent in Britain : in reference to its supposed identity with enteric fever / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    mainly of epithelial structures, which may be an inch or more in diameter and may he tinged with blood or bile, are found loosely attached to the surface, veiy often to the membrane cowering Peyer’s patches, or floating free in the contents of the bowel. On detaching the adherent masses of blood or lymph, the mucous membrane beneath is found to be free from ulceration, though deprived of its epithelium. In not one of thirty cases which I have examined have I found any- thing like a true ulcer extending through the mucous coat, although in several of the cases the disease had lasted from ten to fourteen days. Woodcut 1. Represents the appearances of a Peyer’s patch on the tenth day of cattle-plague, one-half the natural size.