Notice of a case of cyanosis, of the blue disease. connected with mutual adhesion of the semilunar valves of the pulmonary artery / by David Craigie.

  • Craigie, David.
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Credit: Notice of a case of cyanosis, of the blue disease. connected with mutual adhesion of the semilunar valves of the pulmonary artery / by David Craigie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Art. I.—Notice of a Case of Cyanosis, or the Blue Disease^ co7inected with mutual adhesion of the semilunar Valves of the Pulmonary Artery. By David Craigie, M. D., &c,, Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary. (Read at the Fourth Evening Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians.) Since tlie time at which William Hunter* and Dr Pulteneyf recorded their cases of direct communication between the right and left sides of the heart, and solicited the attention of physiolo- gists to the consequent effect of that communication, in prevent- ing the proper coloration of the blood in the lungs, and the other changes required by the healthy condition of that fluid, many dif- ferent instances of different degrees of Cyanosis have been pub- lished, all tending to throw more or less light upon the lesion in a physiological and pathological point of view. The case published at Leyden by Sandifort, in 1777, which had been seen by Gaubius in the year 1769, and by Hahn in 1776, attracted much attention, and suggested to that anatomist various interesting and important observations, which have been more or less fully repeated by subsequent authors. This case does not, however, appear to have been known to English physicians till long after its publication, as no mention is made of it till after the lapse of several years.| For the first systematic views on this lesion we are indebted to Corvisart, who, in his classical work on the Diseases of the Heart, has collected chiefly from a dissertation published by M. Cailliot of Strasbourg, several cases, previously little known, in illustration • Medical Observations and Inquiries, Vol. vi. Art. xxvii. 1783. ■f Transactions of the College of Physicians, Vol. iii. Art. xxi. 1785. X Ed. Sandifort, Observationes Anatomico PathoIogicae, Lugduni Bat. 1777- Cap. I. de rarissinfio Cordis vitio. vol,. LX. NO. 157. S