Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    steamers from Hong Kong. At that port a young gentleman was brought aboard who was apparently in a very bad way ; indeed he was so far gone that his friends and his doctor, who were there to take leave of him, considered it certain that he could not hve more than three or four days ! and it was generally thought that he would be buried at Singapore, which is five or sis days' run. The poor young fellow had been under treat- ment on shore for abscess of the liver. I made his acquaintance at once and determined to take him in hand. The consequence was fhat by the time the steamer reached Singapore, he was sitting up and thoroughly enjoying hfe, which but a short time before seemed so nearly to have left him. The abscess of the hver all dispersed, and he made a rapid and complete recovery.