Chapter xxxiiIS 



DISEASES OF THE ARTEniES AXD LYMPHATICS. 



[diseases of the arteries — arteritis — EMBOLISM — ANEURISM-^ 



TRDB ANEDRISM THE DISSECTINQ ANEURISM FALSE KSEV- 



EISM ANEURISMAL VARIX VARICOSE ANEURISM DEGENERA- 

 TION OF THE ARTERIAL COATS CALCAREOUS, CARTILAGINOUS, 



AND FATTY DEGENERATION INJURIES TO ARTERIES INFLAM- 

 MATION (fit THE ABSORBENTS. 



ARTERITIS. 



Inflaxmation of the arteries is a rare affection in the lo'wer 

 animals. Cases 6f inflammation of the iliac arteries are, however, 

 recorded, and I have seen instances of it There is a fine speci- 

 men in the College ISkruseum, and the history of the case fiom 

 which it was obtained is contained in the following letter : — 



Letter from the late Professor Barlmo to J>r. Gairdner. 



"1 PiLBio Strekt, I2th Dccenher 1855. 



" My Bear Sir — I have recently met with a few instances 

 in which arteries of considerable size have been almost entirely 

 plugged up with fibrinous clots, firmly adherent to their walls. 

 In these coses, during life, there wa.s sometimes visible, but 

 unexplained, atrophy of certain muscles in regions specially 

 supplied by such vessels ; and sometimes, when a main tnmlc, 

 such as the aorta posterior, became thus plugged, there was 

 palsy of the hind parts (of course, I speak of the horse). At 

 first I fancied these things to possess no material interest^ and 

 did not preserve the vessels. However, tliis day week, a pony 

 greatly disabled behind, but not completely paralytic, was 

 brought for dissection. I found a large plug of adherent fibrins 

 in tlie aortii post., just where this vessel divides into two iliaua 

 on each side. (In the horse, you will remember, there is no ^ 



