B. a. 8. Bronchial glands greatly enlarged; so much so as
to compress the branches of the trachea. From a young
subject. No history.
B. a. 9. Scrofulous enlargement of the cervical glands.—
Professor Kirhy.
B. a. 10. Cervical glands of both sides,, enormously enlarged,
and filled with yellow, scrofulous matter. All the
other structures in this region, are closely compressed by the
tumor. —Richmond Hospital.
B. a. 1 1 . Lymphatic glands from beneath the lower jaw,
enlarged, and schirrous—the result of cancer of the lip. The
tumor is as large as an orange, and in structure resembles
closely the inguinal gland, marked B. a. 5.
B„ a. 85. Scrofulous enlargement of the mesenteric glands
of a wild boar. A section has been made to show the cheeisy
matter in their interior.
B. a. 36. A large mass of scrofulous inguinal glands from
a wild boar. Their capsules are minutely injected.
B. a. 37. Iliac glands of a deer, enlarged, and filled with
a mixture of calcareous, and tubercular matter.
B. a. 38. Iliac glands of the opposite side of the same
animal, similarly affected: dry preparation.
*B. a. 39. A cast of two large, scrofulous buboes in the
groin of a boy, about thirteen years of age. There is a large,
transversely oval tumor on each side, m the line, and occupying
the whole extent of Ponpart’s ligament.
*B. a. 40. A bundle of scrofulous mesenteric glands in the
mesentery of a monkey.
B- b. 55. A rare specimen, showing the effects of rapid
inflammation of the serous covering of the heart.
A muscular, healthy, young countryman, while in a state
of profuse perspiration, from over exertion, became suddenly
chilled by exposure to cold. Great distress in the region of
the heart, with the whole consecutive train of symptoms of
violent pericarditis, rapidly followed. Proper medical advice
was not obtained, in time, and he died on the fifth day. The
post-mortem examination discovered but one lesion in the
entire frame—that of pericarditis. A straw-colored scrum,
to the amount of about one ounce and a half, lay in the bag
of the pericardium. The serous membrane—as well that
lining the pericardium as that enveloping the heart, but more
particularly the latter—presented a slight degree of milkiness
or opacity, and was coated with an exceedingly thin, dotted
stratum of coagulable lymph. The rapidly fatal issue of the
disease did not allow of time for a more abundant deposit of
this substance. The sub-serous tissue was unusually vascular:
blit the form and size of the heart, and the condition of its
apertures, were, all, perfectly normal.
The preparation shows the delicate opacity and furring of
the serous surface—the only visible pathological change admitting
of exhibition. There was considerable congestion of
the lungs ; and the right cavities of the heart were filled with
venous blood.—Richmond Hospital.
B. b. 56. Chronic pericarditis. The pericardium is greatly
thickened. The heart, and great vessels are enveloped in a
thick coating of straw-colored lymph, the surface of which is
remarkably rough, and flocculent. The interior of the fibrous
membrane is also covered by a layer of lymph—smoother and
less shreddy, however, than that on the heart. The cavity
contained nearly a pint of whitish serum. The heart is not
enlarged.
The patient, a man aged about thirty-five, had suffered
for several months from cough, oppression of the chest, and
difficulty of breathing. He became much emaciated; had
night sweats; and before his death, the lower extremities
became dropsical.
B. 57. An instructive preparation showing the effects of