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Title: The journal of the Gynaecological Society of Boston : a monthly journal devoted to the advancement of the knowledge of the diseases of women
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Gynaecological Society of Boston
Subjects: Gynecology Gynecology
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : James Campbell
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ing. He insisted upon rising to urinate, and was able todo so, with slight assistance, till the last effort, fiveminutes previous to death. There were no indications of calculi discovered dur-ing life. )STo general or local dropsy. We discovered no symptoms of, and careful explora-tion of the chest did not disclose, pulmonary tuber-culosis. Perfectly conscious, he died without a struggle atfour oclock A. M., Dec. 24. SECTIO CADAVERIS. Twelve hours after death. Present and assisting,Dr. E. H. Ware, U. S. Navy, and Dr. Chas. H. Allen. We found the body greatly emaciated. Rigor mortismoderate. On opening the abdomen, its walls were found verythin, and contained only a trace of adipose tissue.The viscera appeared in their natural position, exceptin the left hypochondrium, where they were considera- 360 Tubercular JWejihritis (June, bly displaced by a large tumor, which bulged high upinto the abdominal cavity, over which the descending Left Kidney, Ureter, and small portion of the Bladder,
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6J inches in length. 4 inches in breadth. 3J inches In thickness. Weight, 22 oz. colon was found lying very much contracted, and ad-hered for about five inches in extent. 1871.) Resulting in Abscess. 361 On examination the tumor was found to be the leftkidney greatly enlarged and firmly adherent, the fibrousadhesions of which were so firm that the entire organrequired to be dissected out with the scalpel before itcould be removed. It had an elastic or boggy feel, and measured five andthree-fourths inches in length, four inches in breadth,three and three-fourths inches in thickness, and weighedtwenty-two ounces (being about three times as largeas the normal kidney). On being laid open, its capsule was found very muchthickened, being nearly one-fourth inch in thickness atthe pelvis, and firmly adhered to the surrounding tis-sues; but it could easily be detached from the organ,leaving its surface smooth. The greater portion of the renal tissue, both corticaland medullary, was found to ha

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