What to observe at the bed-side and after death in medical cases.

  • London Medical Society of Observation.
Date:
1853
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    portions of intestine; form and precise characters of . affected portion.—Invoffinaiitm: number of invagina- tions ; situation; sise; direction, upwards or down- ' wards ? eaac with which reduced; — condition of serous membrane (598), of mucous membrane (595) (distinguishing the separate layers of the inraginatiou); colour, thickness, consistence; lymph, pus, adhesions, etc.;—condition of mesentery included within sheath. —Calibre: in general terms.—Special dilatation or contraction; extent of affected portion;—circum- ference of normal, dilated, contracted, or constricted j portions; of intestine above and below contracted or ' dilated portion;—is contraction partially or entirely removed by stretching?—apparent cause of constric- ■ tion; abnonnities external to canal, in walls of canal itself;—condition of coats at, below, and above con- ' stricted or dilated portion ( t06 et ieql); degree of ; visibility of muscular fibres.—hivertieHla: number ; | situation, at distal or attached side of intestine ? shape; i size; stmetun:;—presence or absence of fibrous cord? ! its length;—contents.—Jdketioiu (fi05, 408L—Peri- toneal coat; its condition (698);—relation of abnor- mal appearances, in respect of position, to morbid : states of mucous membrane. i 405. ContenU.—Gat: quantity; odour and other ' characters.—JHuctu; quantity ; colour ; transparency; consistence; reaction; adhesion to mucous membrane. ; —Blood: mixed with fieces or not? quantity; fluid or coagulated ? colour;—apjiareat source, if discover- ! able.—Pus: quantity; spi>arcut source.—Facal mat- | ter: quantity; aeration; colour; consistence; indu- | durated soyb^.—“ Meconium.—Foreign eubitoHrei: 1 iudigestiblc alimentary matters (c. g., cherry or plum i stones); concretions, their size, form, constituents, i portions of nou-alimentary substances, their form ; and physical characters; biliary calculi;—“ ]>oisonon8 “matters; distinguishable by physical characters; “ ascertaiued by chemical aualyses.’’—Entoxoa: num- ber and character. 406. Mucoue membrane.—Secreliont, etc., on tnr- faee (594); limited or not to border of valvul® con- ! niveutes ? to Pcycr’s patches ? to prominent folds of large intestine?—if a patch of lymph is linear, does : its long axis correspond with that of intestine, or is ' it disposed circularly?—Condition of membrane (595). ; —Snb-tnucoH* tiuue; its condition (596). 87 Inrs^nation. esllhre. dilaiatUm. runstrictlon. diverticula. ailliesiont. {lerltoneal coat. Cuiitentj— gas. mucus. blood. )>ttS. hecal matter. meconium, foreign mb- stances. poisons. entozoa. .Mucous mem- brane— sec ret Ions on surface. condition of membrane, sub-mucous tissue.