The supposition was that the thorn
had been swallowed while eating radishes. Buck mentions a case of
hydatid cysts in the wall of the left ventricle, with rupture of
the cysts and sudden death.
It is surprising the extent of injury to the pericardium Nature
will tolerate. In his "Comment on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates,"
Cardanus says that he witnessed the excision of a portion of the
pericardium with the subsequent cure of the patient. According to
Galen, Marulus, the son of Mimographus, recovered after a similar
operation. Galen also adds, that upon one occasion he removed a
portion of carious sternum and found the pericardium in a putrid
state, leaving a portion of the heart naked. It is said that in
the presence of Leucatel and several theologians, Francois Botta
opened the body of a man who died after an extended illness and
found the pericardium putrefied and a great portion of the heart
destroyed, but the remaining portion still slightly palpitating.
In this connection Young mentions a patient of sixty-five who in
January, 1860, injured his right thumb and lost the last joint by
swelling and necrosis. Chloroform was administered to excise a
portion of the necrosed bone and death ensued.
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