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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    ;J, Though organic lesion from poison may most freq^uently be observed at the fundus of the sto- mach, yet the morbid appearances have sometimes been observed near the oesophagus, or in other parts of the viscus. A case which has been transferred from Ballonius into the Sepulchretum shows how greatly we may be imposed upon by morbid phenomena in the stomach. On examining the body of a person to whom it was suspected that poison had been given, the stomach was found beset with exanthemata, and the physicians were upon the point of asserting that the appearance was owing to poison^ when they were informed that the person died of measles, 'which began to appear on the skin and suddenly vanished. Should powder be found in the stomach, even if adhering to the eroded parts, it should not be deemed an unequivocal proof of poison till its poisonous quality has been satisfactorily deter- mined.— 20. A nifnal poisons. The poison from the sting of the scorpion of this <^ountry is far less potent than that of the African scorpion. The violent symptoms which arise from it in Africa are rarely met with here, or in other regions not very hot.-—28. The noxious effects of the bite of the viper are sometimes very sudden, so that they would appear to be propagated through the medium of th e nerves. In small animals destroyed by this poison, the blood has sometimes been found coagulated. At VOL. II. V V