Pathological observations, Part I. on dropsy, purpura and the influenza of the latter end of the year 1822, and beginning of that of 1823; and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustraled [sic] by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker ...

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1823
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Credit: Pathological observations, Part I. on dropsy, purpura and the influenza of the latter end of the year 1822, and beginning of that of 1823; and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustraled [sic] by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and halt an inch in depth, having two branches, each extending about one inch and half into the pulmonary arteries. This coagulum was so firm as to require considerable force of the fingers to break it. The blood in every other vessel cut into was yet perfectly fluid. No serum or red blood was found in the right ventricle or pulmo- nary veins. I regret that farther examination was prevent- ed. However, as the head was not affected in the course of the disease, I think it is probable that we witnessed every appearance which could throw light on the “ ratio symptomatum,” or ac- count for the manner in which death happened.. OBSERVATIONS. Many striking circumstances, in which the two foregoing cases of complicated dropsy and purpura resembled each other, will contribute to simplify observations made on them. Some difference in the predisposing causes, as connected with sex, habit and temperament, may account for the different degrees of violence in the symptoms, and perhaps for the opposite results in the two cases, the course of the first being rapid, and its termination fatal, the other proceeding more slowly, and ultimately yielding to remedies. The exciting causes appear to have been the same in both, namely, morbid collection in the mesenteric, hepatic and hemorrhoidal vessels, the