Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills.

  • Mills, Thomas
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the eye were slightly yellowish—the digestive organs were much deranged, and fugitive pains throughout the thorax were often complain ed of—^mercurials and blisters had be6ii administered without advantage—leeching and purga- tives, the tepid bath and warm clothing afforded con- siderable relief, but her convalescence was tedious.~ This lady was of a delicate irritable frahie, her consti- tution was scrofulous, and she had suffered consider- ably from childbearing.—Her mother had fallen a victim to pulmonary consumption. Case.—I was consulted last spring by a gentleman, naturally of sound constitution and born of healthy parents, who had resided ten years in the East-Indies, where he was seized with acute hepatitis and dy- senteric s}Tnptonis—he was blistered, purged, blooded and mercurialised; his convalescence was tedious— the constitution was impaired—-a sea voyage, and a trial of his native air, were therefore recommended. —On his return he laboured under chronic . . . . • . ■ . >i^t ]o hepatitis accompanied by jaundice and some en- largement and hardness of the right lobe of the liver;—as this patient was feeble and emaciated^ it was thought adviseable, in the first instance^ to apply leeches in the neighbourhood of the part affected, and to make trial of the saline purgatives, the tepid bath, and a light nutritious diet.—After three months, observance of the above plan, Uie induration D of
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