DIGESTIVE > SMALL INTESTINE
Catalogue No: D6-i41-1927 Origin: UCT Anat Path museum Old Museum No: XVI:iii:6 Year: 1929
The patient, a 46 year old woman, was one of a family of four - all of them with a history and physical findings typical of typhoid fever. Her death was caused by the peritonitis that set in after intestinal perforation.
The specimen consists of a strip of her small intestine showing two typical typhoid ulcers. The second strip is her terminal ileum, with including the appendix and the caecum; it shows several large, deeply eroding ulcers, and in the middle of the largest can be seen a perforation. On the serosal surface over the perforation there is only slight reaction, but over the base of the appendix there is a large patch of congested exudate.