Note 19 — PATHOLOGICAL ESSAYS ON SOME DISEASES OF THE HEART;
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Rupture of the left ventricle without change in its structure. Bone deposited at the commencement of the aorta. (St. B. 27).
In turning over the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences, I find two cases of rupture of the heart, reported by M. Morand. They both occurred in the year 1730; and, strange to say, one was that of a Duchess of Brunswick, who was of the same family as George II. who also died of a ruptured heart. In the one, that of the Duchess, there was a manifest ulceration through the walls of the right ventricle, its structure being otherwise unimpaired; in the other, where the aperture was in the left ventricle, there was probably a simple rupture, for the flesh of the heart was so soft that the point of a probe would pass through it wherever it was rested. (Mem. de l'Acad. Roy. des Sciences, Ann. 1732).