On the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach / by George Budd.

  • Budd, George, 1808-1882.
Date:
MDCCCLV [1855]
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Credit: On the organic diseases and functional disorders of the stomach / by George Budd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    covery of its real nature by finding it in an extreme degree in some persons killed by accident, in the midst of health; in whom, therefore, it could not be thus explained. He says:—“ The first time that I had occa- sion to observe this appearance in such as died of violence, and suddenly, and in whom, therefore, I could not easily suppose it to be the effect of disease, was in a man who had his skull fractured, and was killed outright by one blow of a poker. Just before this accident he had been in perfect health, and had taken a hearty supper of cold meat, cheese, bread, and ale. Upon opening the abdomen, I found that the stomach, though it still contained a good deal, was dissolved at its great end, and a considerable part of its contents lay loose in the general cavity of the belly. This appearance puzzled me much. “ The second time was at St. George’s Hospital, in a man who died a few hours after receiving a blow on his head which fractured his skull. “ From these two cases, among various conjectures about so strange an appearance, I began to suspect it might be peculiar to cases of fractured skull; and there- fore, whenever I had an opportunity, I examined the stomach of every person who died from that accident; but I found many of them which had not this ap- pearance. “ I afterwards met with the same appearance in a man who had been hanged.” In some of the cases that fell under the observation of Hunter, the digestive action had extended much further than through the stomach. After having dis- solved the stomach at the usual place, it had partly dis- solved the adjacent side of the spleen, and had dissolved