This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...the employment of injections. "When by these means copious evacuations are procured, they seldom fail of producing the most beneficial effects, relieving the indescribable sense of tension, stuffing, and oppression about the region of the liver, and making the patient feel comparatively light, easy, and cheerful." 468. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...the employment of injections. "When by these means copious evacuations are procured, they seldom fail of producing the most beneficial effects, relieving the indescribable sense of tension, stuffing, and oppression about the region of the liver, and making the patient feel comparatively light, easy, and cheerful." 468. In the congestive, as well as in the more decidedly inflammatory affections of the liver, great benefit will be derived from keeping up a pretty free discharge from the lining surface of the alimentary canal, by the administration of purgatives. (Annesley, i. 399.) In reference to that form of hepatic hemorrhage in which there is a discharge of blood into the biliary passages, and the consequent black discoloration of the bile (64), Dr. Saunders says, " It is best cured by gentle purging, which will diminish the quantity of blood returned by the vena portarum, andthe liver will thereby be relieved by an artificial diarrhoea acting on the extremities of the exhalants of the intestines" "In such a diseased state of the organ, I have never seen mercury useful." 469. Any disposition which the practitioner might entertain, from a reliance on the antiphlogistic influence of emetics, to have recourse to the employment of these remedies in the treatment of hepatitis, is discouraged by the strong dissuasion of Mr. Annesley, who affirms that, where any inflammation of the liver, or even a tendency to it, exists, the acute character of the disease is greatly increased by their exhibition. "When emetics are exhibited in hepatitis, they often afford relief for a short time after their operation; but the inflammatory symptoms are soon afterwards increased if they previously existed, or, in the more chronic cases, where the...
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1842, Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1842.
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Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1842.
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1842
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English
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Good. With, Clinical Illustrations of Diseases of the Liver and Spleen by William Twining. First printing. 8vo. 339 pp. + ads. Illustrated with tables. Original calf binding with printed leather spinal label. Front hinge cracked through but holding by the binding strings, wear overall of the calf, some foxing interior. Good.
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Also, Clinical Illustrations of Diseases of the Liver and Spleen by William Twining. 339pp. + ads. 8vo, full calf. Philadelphia: Barrington & Haswell, 1842. Light foxing and rubbing, Very good.
