TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
The 'Apothecary System' of measurement was used in the original text.The etext uses the following Unicode symbols:
℞ Prescription symbol
ʒ Dram
℥ Ounce
ℳScruple
Roman numerals, and 'ss.' for 'half', are retained, so for example'℥iss.' indicates 'one and a half ounces'.
The 'Apothecary System' of measurement was used in the original text.The etext uses the following glyphs taken from the text images:
Prescription symbol
Dram
Ounce
Scruple
Roman numerals, and 'ss.' for 'half', are retained, so for example'iss.' indicates 'one and a half ounces'.
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have beencorrected after careful comparison with other occurrences withinthe text and consultation of external sources.
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THE
LONDON MEDICAL GAZETTE,
BEING A
WEEKLY JOURNAL
OF
Medicine and the Collateral Sciences.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1828.
PATHOLOGICAL ESSAYS
ON SOME
DISEASES OF THE HEART;
Being the Substance of Lectures delivered beforethe College of Physicians,
By P. Mere Latham, M.D.
Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
[Continued from p. 7.]
ESSAY II.
Morbid Anatomy of the Internal LiningMembrane of the Heart.
The membrane which lines the cavitiesof the heart is very liable to disease,but not equally so in every part. Whereit is thin and transparent, and admitsthe colour and character of the muscularstructure upon which it is spreadto be seen through it, it is seldom founddiseased; but where it is of a densertexture, either in itself or from an admixtureof other structures, whethercellular or fibrous, with its own, it isfrequently, and often exclusively diseased.This latter character of a densertexture belongs to it where it formsthe tough white circles which surroundthe apertures of communication betweenthe auricles and ventricles; alsowhere it is reflected upon itself, andforms the loose duplicatures of membrane,which are given off, as it were,from the internal