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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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    Case 2. Apoplexy from extravasation into the right ventricle, with ulceration of the corpus striatum and of the 2)lexus choroides. A man sixty years of age, of sanguineous tem- perament, fell in walking, and struck his head violently against the ground; he was slightly stupi- tied; there was contusion on his forehead; blood flowed from his nostrils; and paralysis of the left arm ensued. He was brought into the hospital Sancta Maria de Vita at Bologna; his face was florid; his respiration laborious; his pulse hard and moderately quick. On the fourth day he w as speechless, aiul on the beginning of the fifth, he expired. Dissection. The dura mater exhibited slight marks of contusion; in the right ventricle of the brain about two ounces of coagulated blood were found, and the corpus striatum, with part of the plexus choroides, w^as so much ulcerated that scarcely a vestige of it remained.—Valsalva, ii. 11. In this instance the disease does not appear to be attributable to the fall, but tlie fall to the pre- existing disease. Case 3. Apoplexy from extravasation into the ventricles; with ulceration. A woman, seventy years of age, perceived for some months a diminution in the powers of me- mory; her sight also was somewhat impaired, and as she walked, she scarcely lifted her feet from the