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Image number: RS.9943
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Alterations caused by cholera in the intestinal mucous membrane
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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 alterations caused by cholera in the intestinal mucous membrane during various stages of the disease. Fragment of the ileum in the typhoid stage of the disease (figure 1), choleric ulceration of a Peyer’s patch (figure 2) and the blistering of the villi of the ileum (figure 3). The effect of diphtheric cholera on the large intestine demonstrating local hyperaemia and swelling (figures 4 and 6) and the effect of simple cholera on the mucous membrane of the large intestine (figure 5).
Plate VI from Anatomie Pathologique du Cholera Morbus by Nikolay Pirogov (St Petersburg, 1849).
Plate VI from Anatomie Pathologique du Cholera Morbus by Nikolay Pirogov (St Petersburg, 1849).
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