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Title: The New England journal of medicine
Year: 1828 (1820s)
Authors: Massachusetts Medical Society New England Surgical Society
Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine (General) Periodicals
Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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us system without any inflammatory orreactive process anywhere. In this case the clinicalpicture was very interesting. Some days beforedeath there developed a most complicated group ofboth sensory and motor palsies wuth somnolence;there was distention of the abdomen, rapid respira-tion and elevated temperature. Nothing was foundat autopsy or by histological examination whichcould account for the symptoms, except the pres-ence of the gas bacillus in large numbers. Hart-man n assumes that the cavities were formed post-mortem, but that the presence of the bacilli in thenervous system, partly bv their mechanical, partlyby their toxic actions, caused the extensive symp-tom-complex. In the absence of any other demonstrated causeof death in our case, and in view of the rapid andextensive abdominal distention with great rise oftemperature, it seems possible that the invasion ofthe circulating blood by the bacillus was the causeof death by the production of a toxemia. MOOKR8. CAVITY lOUMATION,
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Fig. ).— Front.il suciinii tliidiigli brain (in front of the crura), sliowing numerous gas cavities.

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