Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . there was a small amount of recent membranous exudation. A multitude of smallcancerous nodules were scattered throughout the whole of both lungs. Some wereimmediately below the pleurae, and some in the substance of the organs. For themost part these masses were scattered pretty equally, being as numerous at the base asat the apex, and varying from the size of a millet-seed to that of a small were of firm consistence, and others soft and friable, presenting various degreesof induration. They all on pressure yielded a cop
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . there was a small amount of recent membranous exudation. A multitude of smallcancerous nodules were scattered throughout the whole of both lungs. Some wereimmediately below the pleurae, and some in the substance of the organs. For themost part these masses were scattered pretty equally, being as numerous at the base asat the apex, and varying from the size of a millet-seed to that of a small were of firm consistence, and others soft and friable, presenting various degreesof induration. They all on pressure yielded a copious milky juice. The mucousmembrane of the bronchi was of a mahogany color, and the tubes were more or lessfilled with muco-purulent matter. Abdomen.—Abdominal organs healthy. Microscopic Examination.—The cancerous juice squeezed from the cervicalglands, and the nodules scattered throughout the lungs, contained numerous cancercells, which it is unnecessary to describe minutely here. (See p. 139.) Associated * Reported by Mr. D. 0. Hoile, Clinical CANCER OF THE LUNG. 155 with these were a considerable number of round colorless corpuscles, varying indiameter from the 150th to the 100th of a millimetre in diameter. An unusualnumber of these cells also existed .,.. ..-?-: both before and after death i >ee v ° Leueocythemia). d > •.)? ~V .??„ „ Cnmmrntarij.—In the I _ ?.. :^ case before us, the elv-t ^0i^::^M&&:>;was frequently examined . ^ H* where resonant on per- pjs- W3. Pig. 464. cussion. Loud sonorous and moist rales were heard on both sides,especially posteriorly ami inferiorly. Hence there were all the signs ofbronchitis, which was fmnd afterwards to exist; but there was associatedwith them unusually loud vocal resonance, equal on both sides. Itoccurred to me at the time that this latter sio-n was merely indicative ofdiminished volume in t
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