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.

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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    organ in fever, whicli, though an effect only, in the first instance, may yet, in the course of the complaint, where matters are nearly balanced, turn' the scale against the patient, if not attended to a'hd corrected—in such cases the ajjplicaiibn of stupes, leeches or blisters' in the neigh- bourhood of the livei-; and the full adTiiinistration of pur- gatii'cs have been extremely beneficial. DO WINE AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS OPE- RATE SPECIFICALLY IN THE PRODUCTION OF LIV^ER-COMPLAINTS ? There are no ideas more comnionlv received, than that liver-complAints are the children of interhpei^nce, and that our ancestors were cxempt(id from them.—That liver-complaints are more prevalent than formerly, is genei'ally admitted.^—I have already remarked that the inhabitants of this country are extremely subject to scrofulo-schirrus of tliis organ—but we cannot therefore sky, thatwlne and sfpirituous liquors operate spccifically Sn their production ; and, in looking at the past and present state of this kinorJorfi, we arei fully justified i-n making the assertion. Perhaps no.,nation , in . the .Ihabitable globe, within thp same number of years, made such rapid N ad-