Descriptive Card Log Book Entry
Rodin Number: 22
E Number: 143
Donor: Burland and Osler
Date: 1880
Size (H x W cm): 18.5 x 12
The specimen shows a tear in the anterior surface of the left ventricle (arrow, glass rod), most likely secondary to an underlying myocardial infarct and resulting in pericardial tamponade and death.
Comment
The white material on the epicardial surface is fat (hence the descriptive card specimen title) altered over time by fixation. The patient was a 60 year-old man who experienced 鈥渟udden faintness鈥� and died 14 hours later. William H Burland was House Surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital in 1877-78. Autopsy 439 was documented in one of Osler鈥檚 missing books.