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Image number: RS.9942
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Effects of cholera on the ileum
Date
1849
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59112
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height (print): 330mm
width (print): 490mm
width (print): 490mm
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Anatomical study showing the effects of simple cholera on the ileum, including the appearance of the ileum after infection (figures 1 & 2) noting the swelling of the Peyer’s patches and anaemic state of the mucous membrane of the ileum (figures 3 & 4) including a detailed illustration of a swollen Peyer’s plate (figure 5).
Plate III from Anatomie Pathologique du Cholera Morbus by Nikolay Pirogov (St Petersburg, 1849).
Plate III from Anatomie Pathologique du Cholera Morbus by Nikolay Pirogov (St Petersburg, 1849).
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