Cases of great enlargement of the stomach, with remarks / [John Home Peebles].

  • Peebles, John Home, -1867.
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[1840]
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Credit: Cases of great enlargement of the stomach, with remarks / [John Home Peebles]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    M- <? 23- . V>*: \ \f .W. I 'k v «: ft 0 f: % :/' CASES OF GREAT ENLARGEMENT OF THE STOMACH* WITH REMARKS, BY John Home Peebles, M. D., Member of the I. and R. College of Physicians, Florence; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician in Ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. (From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 144.) The stomach has occasionally been found preternaturally dis¬ tended, dilated, or, more correctly speaking, enlarged to such an extent, as to fill the whole of the abdomen from the epigastrium to the pubis. A large accumulation of fluid almost always accom¬ panies this morbid condition of the viscus; and the name of drop* sy of the stomach has been assigned to it by some authors. This enlargement of the organ is not unfrequently attended with dis¬ ease of the internal and muscular coats, and sometimes of the py-