Volume 2

The seats and causes of diseases, investigated by anatomy : containing a great variety of dissections, and accompanied with remarks / by John Baptist Morgagni ... abridged, and eluciated with copious notes, by William Cooke.

  • Morgagni, Giambattista, 1682-1771.
Date:
1822
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    lower jugular glands enlarged so as to measure two digits in each direction. They constituted the tumour which had been perceived during life, and though of a hard texture they contained pus. The other jugular glands also were enlarged, and the bronchial glands were the size of grapes. They were of a blackish colour, and in a state of suppu- ration. The mitral valves of the heart were beset with numerous firm tubercles, of a roundish and depressed figure ; and on one of the semilunar valves there existed a small scale, but it had not acquired a bony texture. The cerebrum was slightly indurated, the lateral ventricles contained some pellucid serum, and the pineal gland was somewhat larger, firmer, and whiter than is usual to this body. Morgag7ii, xxix. 12. It seems probable that the commencement of this protracted disease was in some gland of the stomach, which gradually enlarged and became indurated ; and by obstructing the circulation, the adjacent vessels became loaded, and occasionally, they poured out blood. At length the gland sup- purated and burst into the stomach ; and it is easy to conceive what would have happened to the pancreas and liver, had the woman lived a little longer. Other instances of tumours and abscesses in the parietes of the stomach may be found in the eighth section of the Sepulchretum, and also amongst the Monuments of the Ceesarean Academy, and in the works of Hoffman.—13.