An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White].

  • William White
Date:
1771
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Credit: An essay on the diseases of the bile, more particularly its calculous concretions, called gall-stones / [William White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / [ 21 ] The diet fliould be chiefly folid, confining of roalled, fryed, broiled, and faked flefh meats, efpecially fuch as contain much elTential oil, as wild fowl of all kinds. The drink chiefly fpirituous, of rum or brandy proper¬ ly diluted. Abflinence from vege¬ tables and acids. A diligent obfer- vance of proper exercife. Dire<5lly contrary to this ftate, is that in which the bile has contracted an alcalefcent acrimony; in which cafe it is rendered very acrid, pungent, and irritating. The fymptoms which indicate fuch a condition of the bile, are conftant third;; fenfe of heat in the ftomach, bowels, and other parts of the body ; nidorofe eradiations ; foetid breath; a bitter, or fulphureous take in the mouth; lofs of appetite; naufea, and reachings to vomit; evacuations up¬ wards and downwards of a dark co¬ loured, or very yellow, thin, and frothy bile, very foetid and offenfive ; colic pains; the white part of the eyes have a yellowifh caft, and the urine is fmall in quantity, and very high coloured. The body wakes a- way by kow degrees, the healthy fuf- fufiou N