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Cases of Morbid Anatomy.— — I. History of a Case of Diseased 

 (Esophagus, with a detail of the Morbid Appearances of that and of 

 other parts of the body ; with Remarks. By John W. Francis, 

 M. D. Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society ; Pro- 

 fessor of Materia Medica in the University of the State of New- 

 York, Sfc* 



[Read before the Society, on the 8th of June, 1815.] 



The information which morbid anatomy supplies is always interest- 

 ing, frequently important, and may be considered in every instance 

 indispensable, where a complete acquaintance with the exact nature 

 and seat of disease is required. The following case, inasmuch as it 

 exhibits no ordinary example of the great and various changes of 

 structure which the body may undergo, during the predominance of 

 the vital functions, seems to be calculated to augment the stock of 

 physiological and pathological knowledge, if not to enlarge the sanative 

 powers of medical science. The details of the case have been com- 

 pressed as much as was deemed expedient : less minuteness might have 

 prevented the forming an opinion, how far the symptoms corresponded 

 with the appearances ascertained by dissection. 



j**## g#****#*# 5 fifty years of age, a native of Dumfries, in 

 Scotland, of a habit of body rather delicate, and of the melancholic 

 temperament, on the morning of the third day of September, 1814, 

 while attempting to take his ordinary breakfast, found himself incapable 



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