Lectures on the blood, and on the anatomy, physiology, and surgical pathology, of the vascular system of the human body delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1819 / by James Wilson.

  • Wilson, James.
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1819
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Credit: Lectures on the blood, and on the anatomy, physiology, and surgical pathology, of the vascular system of the human body delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of London, in the summer of the year 1819 / by James Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    internal coat is sometimes abraded so that there is no membrane between the blood and the deposi- tion; sometimes very prominent and rough spicula from it project into the cavity of the artery. The number of preparations of this disease pre- served in the museum, shew all the varieties from its first origin to the formation of thin bony scales, and so progressively until the artery for some considerable length appears a tube of bone. This disease lays the foundation not only for aneurism, but also for mortifications of the ex- tremities, and for apoplexy. | have opened the heads of nineteen people of whom I have preserved some account, and of several since who have died of apoplexy, and in all of them I found the ar- teries forming the circulus arteriosus and branches proceeding from it, to have much phosphate of lime deposited in their coats, and in some few I have traced the effused blood to the rupture of such diseased vessel. Aneurism is not confined to very old people; I have met with several instances of the disease affecting the aorta and other vessels, in people not exceeding forty years of age. Women are so seldom affected by it, that it has been doubted, by some, whether it ever takes place in them, I recollect having heard John Hunter observe, a few years before his death, that he had only met with one case of true aneurism in a