[749] In a case related by Orfila, t. i. Obs. xv., death resulted from the outward application of arsenic; the mucous membrane of the stomach was natural in colour, but there were four ulcers, one of which was 50 centimetres in diameter.
[750] Op. cit., Obs. i. p. 468.
The author saw, many years ago, at Barnard Castle, an autopsy made on a gentleman who died from arsenic. In this case the mucous membrane of the stomach presented a peculiar appearance, being raised here and there by little blebs, and very slightly reddened.
§ 734. The inflammatory and other changes rarely affect the gullet. Brodie[751] never observed inflammation of the œsophagus as an effect of arsenic; but, when arsenic is swallowed in the solid state, as in the suicide of Soufflard, graphically described by Orfila,[752] it may be affected. In Soufflard’s case there was a vivid injection of the pharynx and gullet.
[751] Phil. Trans., 1812.
[752] T. i. p. 319.