Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills.

Mills, Thomas.

Date:: 1811

Credit: Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills. 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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$iSl«*ott?*, --tibsceSfy, . j^^^ schiri'u?,' ''*biUary calculi, lurbei'elefe,-' ^yUatidsi* werftisi an^' • fearthy concretions^ ico thb.Bst niay be a'ddieiJ, caniet-, scrofulo-sdiirrous or con- feump^il^^^' Uevefff' (a common complaint of diis country) ^thd siiri^le erllai^enient, hardness or softhess. Jaundicej ftir' teasona ^O 'be 'gir^'n lierfeafter, appears to me to b« here misplacecl,' aTiid'^vcitlrregard to-chronic hepatitis, it is ttd gfenerally ctfnsidei'ed as ,a' disease tlistiiict from the acute Speciesi 'which leads to'a contrary and mischievous t^factic'el^ -^'^' ^adj to Jf the hematic vessels be preternaturally exqtecj, if Uiey lose their MWited powers pf. action or ^assume a morbid one,'if ,the trallTbladder. pf ducts be inflamed, fOveir-distended or obstructed, disease in some shape presents itself, diversified m appearance, but still more trit vn rmc .lifKini II; !'.)!;.; ft: i • ■ - - i i 'j - )X • • .-i ija ^j;s .jG^onsec^uences. . this kingdom the ' chronic ^ af- foctions, low inflammation andscrofulo-schirrusqr conVump- 4i5|^i,pf ;tjT^ Liy^r,.,are ra^^^^ prevalent, thei.r commence- n^ept'.is insidious, because ^ot n)arked by any characteristic 6yi))ptoms, and thei^ progress towards the.confirmed stage though slo\v, is sure, and when this is once formed, they '^^jponie iiveterate and dangerous. .. felrt-onie hepatitis is, perhaps, entitled to our fii^t 0911- sidcration, from the frequency of its occurrence, (i^m j it^.bcing cflen oyer-lookcd, confounded with, or mistaken ; forqoimplaintsof thc^chcst, stomach or intestines, and frpm$