A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula : describing its connection with diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, &c. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons. To which is added, a brief account of ophthalmia, so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / by Eusebius Arthur Lloyd.

  • Lloyd, Eusebius Arthur.
Date:
1821
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the nature and treatment of scrophula : describing its connection with diseases of the spine, joints, eyes, glands, &c. Founded on an essay to which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1818, was adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons. To which is added, a brief account of ophthalmia, so long prevalent in Christ's Hospital / by Eusebius Arthur Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    127/354 (page 109)
    10$ false passage through the under portion of the prostate. In this case the mesenteric and the lumbar glands were enlarged; and one ot the latter was converted into a mass of complete scrophulous matter. The bladder was thickened and highly inflamed, and almost in a state of gan- grene ; and a portion, of about the size of a shil- ling, at its upper part, had sloughed away, through which the urine had been extravasated. The death was produced by an excessive degree of peritoneal inflammation, which came on imme- diately after the extravasation of the urine. The bladder and prostate of the patient are preserved in Mr. Abernethy’s museum. The only history I could procure of this case was, that about three months before, the patient was suddenly attacked with a copious discharge of matter from the urethra, which was succeeded by retention of urine. These symptoms, however, except a slight discharge, subsided; and he continued, as he con- sidered, tolerably well for between two and three months, when the attack which has been just described commenced. It appears probable that if, in this case, the bladder had been timely punctured above the pubis, the patient would have recovered. It is obvious k>o, that the operation could not have been performed, with any chance of success, through the perinaeum or rectum.