A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    over the whole of its surface. This pain is much increased by pressure: it produces no inclination to go to stool; the pulse is at least one hundred in a minute, and small, and the tongue has a natural appearance. In the course of about twenty-four hours, the pain becomes more exquisite on pres- sure, and the pulse rises to a hundred and twenty, or a hundred and thirty in a mi- nute : at this time the tongue begins to be covered with a cream-coloured mucus, and though it is moist, there is great thirst. A considerable degree of swelling and ten- sion now takes place over the whole abdo- men, and the patient finds most relief from pain by remaining motionless upon the back, with the knees in a small degree elevated. This tension continues to increase to the sixth, seventh, or eighth day, on one of which days, unless proper means have been taken to remove the disease, the pa- tient most commonly expires. This is the Peritonitis of CuUen. It may be distinguished from- every other disease