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

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1806
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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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    CHAPTER XI. Mesenteric Glands, When there is disease of the Mesen- teric Glands, the patient usually complains of a lancinating pain, deep-seated within the abdomen, which is of very short dura- tion, and resembles more the common gripes, than it does that pain, which attends inflammation of internal parts. The Abdomen gradually enlarges, while the other parts of the body become ema- ciated. The features and the whole look of the countenance are in a remarkable degree altered from their former appear- ance. The eye seems glassy, and sunk in the socket: the nose appears lengthened, from the falling in of the cheeks, which, unless when they are flushed with fever, are of a marbly whiteness ; the same white-