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Title: The medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. (1861-65). Prepared, in accordance with the acts of Congress, under the direction of Surgeon general Joseph K. Barnes, United States army
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: United States Surgeon General's Office Barnes, Joseph K, 1817-1883 Huntington, David Lowe, 1834-1899 Otis, George Alexander, 1830-1881 Smart, Charles Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884
Subjects: Medicine, Military Surgery, Military United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical and sanitary affairs
Publisher: Washington Govt. print. off
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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substance. In I.USCIIKAS ca.^e naked roundish nuclei and nucleated cells, some ofwhich had two nuclei, were imbedded in a partly fibrillated partly granular matrix, but a large part of each tumor was composed of the tubular glandsof the intestine, (see Pl.ite 3, Fig. 2.) VlitcHOW. Joe cit., speaks of these cases as colitis polyposa, and regards them as nearly related to his own case,which he describes as colitis ct/stica pohjposa. LuschKjV mentions that he himself has observed the cystic form in a girl 5 years old dead of chronicdysentery. VlliClIOW (vide supra) refers also to a case reported and figured by Mexzei.—^Icia Med. Ilerol, T. IX, 1721, p. 78, and Fig. 4—which, how-ever, I .Judge, from the curious etching by which it is illustrated, is rather similar to the cases of LUSCIIKA and LEBEl.T than to the cystic forms. It isheaded, Dc cxcrescentiis verrucoso cristosis coitiosfi in intestinis crassis dyscnteiiam passi observatis. The pitticnt was a soldier who died of dysentery.
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e.- L.-, />. s:. TRANSVKKS1-: COLON Willi CYSTS.No. 602. MEDICAL SECTION. SECT. IV.I MORBID ANATOMY. 515 kulin, several of which usually coalesced to form one of the cysts seen with the naked eye.It will be shown further on that in our own cases the cysts also ojiginated in these glands,but only after they had invaded the solitary follicles by a process which is of frequentoccurrence in chronic intestinal catarrh.^ Chronic inflammation accompanied hy follicular or other ulcers.—This process in itsmost exquisite development always involves the large intestine, but it sometimes extendsfor some distance into the lower part of the small. The development of the ulcers ispreceded or accompanied by more or less thickening of the mucous and submucous layers,especially the latter, sometimes even of all the intestinal coats. When this thickening isconsiderable the colon is usually much contracted, so that its lumen is abnormally small,and when grasped by the hand during the autopsy feels h

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