A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    formerly a little oedema, but not lately. She is affect- ed with leucorrhoea.—These complaints are already mitigated, and the complexion improved by adopting a course of purgative medicine. The leucorrhoea is quite removed by a lotion with sulphat of zinc, insert- ed, by means of a scroll of linen, into the vagina.— A still further amendment takes place in this patient: —the complexion improves, the mammae from being flaccid are now tumid and much enlarged; she has during the last three weeks gained 2lb. of flesh; the strength, capability of exertion, and the general health are equally much improved. — It is now fourteen months since she applied to me, and she continues well, being fresh coloured, jolly, and free from her many painful complaints. The nails have much recoyered, and the leucorrhoea is removed. 256. The following cases exemplify the appear- ance of the Mimosis Decolor in married females, and illustrate the paragraph, § 236:— 257. Case LXIII. Mrs. C. aged 32, and mother of seven children. April, 1816. This patient refers her complaints to mental distress; they took place in- sidiously, about five years ago, and three years and a hall ago she was induced to apply to medicine. At first, Mrs. C. was affected with recurrent pain of the head, under the sternum, of the right side, and of the bowels. She was alternately constipated and affected with diarrhoea, but habitually of a costive habit. At