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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    plaint began fifteen years ago, and that during the last /rye years she has been unable to rise unassisted from her bed. During the whole of this period she has been subject to haematemesis, retching and vomit- ing, and to constipation' of the bowels.—At present there are great nervousness; starting from the slight- est noise; agitation on the approach of a stranger; general rapid and forcible tremor, so that the pulse can scarcely be felt; and an almost similar affection of the respiration; there is the strangest alternation of spasmodic heaving of the chest and protrusion of the abdomen; the nostrils and the head are moved at each respiration; there is often retching; and fre- quently retention of urine. This state of agitation is permanent. The affection is, at different times, at- tended with pain of the head, and a sense of uneasi- ness about the throat, and at the scrobiculus cordis.