Indeed, it has not yet entirely disappeared, as any physician who has tried to secure autopsies on interesting cases knows very well.
I often compared these deposits of urates in the joints with the deposits of lime salts so often found at autopsies in caseous glands or small necrotic areas.
What Autopsies of the Brain Reveal The changes in the brain accompanying or resulting from disease, as found in some chronic cases of insanity in which autopsies are made, consist largely in alteration of the nerve cells of the brain.
At the autopsies the rent was found to be in both instances in the posterior wall of the bladder a short distance from the fundus; the peritoneum was not inflamed, and there was absolutely no inflammatory reaction in the vesical wound.
No peritonitis, or ascites, or ecchymoses in the mucous membranes were noted in the autopsies made on sheep by Ruedi.
Chesnut and Wilcox made numerous autopsies on sheep and experiments on animals.
Careful autopsies show that practically every man who lives to be over thirty has or has had living tubercle bacilli in his tissues.
Careful autopsies show us remains of the disease even in the bodies of those who, without any history of tuberculosis, die from other diseases.
Only those familiar with many autopsies on the tuberculous can appreciate this.
One out of eight of the population dies of tuberculosis, but the remaining seven are quite capable of resisting the disease and so we find healed lesions at autopsies in this proportion of cases.
In these cases the respiration was noisy, but the obstruction to breathing seemed to be due to infiltration and swelling around the aperture of the glottis, rather than to diphtheritic croup, which the autopsies showed to be present.
It must be noted, however, that in a certain number of autopsies serious intracranial lesions are found, which are evidently the results of the attack of relapsing fever.
Carter, observing the disease in India, found in one-half of all autopsies some amount of congestion, hemorrhage, or inflammation of the ileum.
At the autopsies of the more malignant cases we find the blood dark and fluid, with small, soft, and dark clots in the heart and large vessels.
The dark color and defective coagulation of the blood in autopsies of diphtheria cases have often been remarked.
In autopsies they have been found in the urinary tubules, pressing forward and piercing the walls, not occupying a nidus of inflammation, however, and probably are even here a post-mortem phenomenon.
There are but few autopsies of cases which have died of, or during, diphtheritic paralysis.
The lesions of pleurisy are met with in a small proportion of cases; in our own autopsiesthis complication was more frequent than in most epidemics.
Footnote 6: The former condition was undoubtedly observed in autopsies made of the dry or atrophic form of the disease, though this fact is not mentioned.
Autopsies on the drowned are remarkable owing to their negative signs.
The importance which attaches to autopsies of fragments rests upon the fact that parts of a body may be found widely separated, and that one portion may be found before the others.
The object of lateautopsies is to determine identity, or to establish the guilt or innocence of suspected persons.
Careful autopsies were made in the cases of the criminals executed by electricity, but no important changes caused by the electric current have been detected either macroscopically or microscopically.
Care should always be exercised not to mistake the ordinary post-mortem appearance which we find at autopsies for the lesions of disease.
Late autopsies are those performed after partial or complete destruction of the soft parts of the body, through the natural processes of decomposition, or the examination of bones exhumed long after interment.
At autopsies the surface of the liver, especially along the free border, is generally seen to be of a greenish or dark-brown color.
In making autopsies it is a cardinal rule that all the cavities of the body should be examined, and not alone the one where one might expect to find a lesion.
In autopsies after death by lightning the results are in general analogous.
Home, I made with them a series of six autopsies of trout caught consecutively in one morning.
In the afternoon of the day on which I am writing this, Colonel Walker showed me a peculiar sort of knife which he carries when out fishing, for the purpose of making autopsies on trout.
This experience of his exactly coincides with my own, though the six consecutive autopsies described above without my other similar experiences is a fairly strong piece of evidence.
The smallest number of caterpillars found in one of these six autopsies was five, and the greatest, twelve.
Statistics based upon autopsies surpass all others in certainty of diagnosis, but they possess in even greater degree the defects urged against hospital statistics.
But it is a matter of surprise that Stoll (1780) was able to declare as the result of autopsies made by himself that, although the colon is thickened and inflamed, ulcerations in dysenteries are very rare.
He continues: "Tubercular disease of the lung was noted in nearly one-sixth of the autopsies of fatal cases of forms of flux heretofore described.
Since then I have each summer witnessed autopsies in the institutions in cases of this disease, and the lesions observed were the same as in the eighty-two cases.
Rilliet and Barthez report twenty-four autopsies in children with intestinal lesions in which no symptoms had been observed.
I have witnessed a large number of autopsies of infants who have perished from the summer complaint, chiefly in institutions, and they have been sufficiently marked and uniform to enable us to designate it an entero-colitis.
I have found 6 cases of open ulcer of the stomach in about 800 autopsies made by me in New York.
He thinks, however, that this proportion would be greatly modified if in the autopsies of young children the alveoli were opened to examine the embryonic teeth.
From the autopsies of 405 Whites, Blacks, and intermediates, made by Surgeon Ira Russell, the following conclusions have been drawn by Dr.
Medico-legal autopsies are on record long before this, though there was always serious objection to their performance because of the natural feeling of deterrence men have toward the destruction of the human body.
He is the first that we know who made a number of autopsies with the definite idea of finding out the cause of death and he has come deservedly to be called, as a consequence, the Father of Pathological Anatomy.
Columbus in Rome made a series of autopsies even on high ecclesiastics for the purpose of determining the cause of death and evidently the science of pathology was gradually coming into existence.
Eustachius, the professor of anatomy in Rome, declares in the preface to his anatomical tables that he was the first to make autopsies for pathological purposes in Rome, and that he had collected an abundant amount of material.
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