Dissection fifteen hours after death.—On exposing the brain and spinal marrow, but before opening their investing membranes, the least pressure with the fingers on the middle of the hemispheres of the brain caused a remarkable undulating down to the middle of the back, showing the existence of a fluid beneath the membranes, and on opening them about two drachms of pure serum flowed out.
The surface of the brain was rather vascular, and the blood in the most minute vessels particularly bright. A few ecchymosed spots on its surface. All the other viscera were found healthy. The urinary bladder contained about half an ounce of urine.
THOMAS CRAIGIE, M. D.
Leith, 26th May, 1832.
No. 6.
List of Queries addressed to Drs. Lewins and Latta, by the Central Board of Health, London, relative to the preceding cases, &c.
QUERIES BY THE CENTRAL BOARD.
1. Were any of your patients bled previously to, or after the saline injections into their veins?
2. Were the evacuations by purging, vomiting, or perspiration, increased by the injections?
3. Did any of the patients submitted to the saline injection plan die; and if examined after death, what were the appearances?