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Show 31010211 anatomy of fever. either empty, pale, collapsed, tender, or tinged View; either solely as disposition to inflamma~ with black blood and full of polypi, the lymphatics of the heart being particularly dilated and distended with lymph. Theliverinflamed, tion in the viscera, or as compleat inflammation in some, or as degenerated into putrid fever from neglect or bad treatment/L411 three dissections the appearances were as follow: 50 (especially the concave surface) tender, flaccid, full of blood, or pale and bloodless. The same was observed in the spleen, but more rarely; indeed it was mostly sound. I did meet with .51 1. The vessels of the meninges gorged with rigors, from first to last great head ache with blood, the cortical and medullary substances studded with an infinity of very red and much dilated blood vessels: the cerebellum less so.--~= The lower part of the left lung very black and very much gorged with blood; the right flabby and dried-all the ramifications of the mesenteric arteries full ofhlack coagulated blood ; the in- testines a little livid and containing many worms. 2. the vessels of the meninges all full ofblack coagulated blood, a prodigious number ofred varicous capillaries, diffused through all the substances of the brain and cerebellum; the right lung gangrenous and purulent, the left blacker and more gorged but less purulent; the omentum livid; part of the intestines inflamed; part putrid and gangrenous; all the mesentery throbbing, heat, prostration of strength as it" gorged with blood and livid; the liver black thepatients had been broken on the wheel, difficulty in moving, disgust for every thing except hot water and cyder, a pulse frequent, concentrated, hard, intermitting, and a cutaneous eruption which appeared from the first to the third day-I c0nsider"he observes, "this dis»- and putrid over its whole concave surface; the gall-bladder full of thick black bile. 3. pro» digious congestion in the small curvature of the stomach and in all the intestines, especially the inflammation and gangrene of the uterus, the urinary bladder, the prostrate and other glands (particularly the mesenteric,) of the colon and rectum. These changes in the uterus and bladder, chiefly occurred in people addicted to flagitious passions and immoderate venery," p. 38. " The pains in the head were sometimes so violent, and the delirium so furious, as to indi« cate inflammation of the encephalon, which however was discovered in the abdomen." p. 19. A contagious disease prevailed at Plence .lugon in Normandy, of which Dr. Moueet says " the essential symptoms were violent -order in regard to its stages in three points of view: small; the liver :1 little livid externally: the right lung flabby and livid; the left a little more livid, purulent, and much gorged with blood; r 5.? purulent "on; ' l |