Clinical medicine : observations recorded at the bedside with commentaries / by W.T. Gairdner.

  • William Tennant Gairdner
Date:
1862
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    cerbation of the chronic disease of the stomach. But even in this case the jaundice would he a very curious and rare symptom, and the concurrence of this symptom with hemorrhage from the stomach and intestines, in two members of the same family at the same time, is surely (if correctly stated) a fact of the most singular and anomalous character, at least in any part of the world not visited by yellow fever.* This patient improved very much under a carefully regulated diet, with mo- derate and cautious use of laxative medicines. [When I last heard of him he continued well.] In three other cases belonging to this series (Thomas L., Thomas M‘G., Christian S.) there are evidences of serious organic disease, of obscure and complicated cha- racter. The details of these cases, however, are too long and complex to be narrated here with advantage. One patient (Margaret F.) died from acute perito- nitis, probably, I think, the result of perforation, perhaps from enteric fever admitted late in the disease. Another (Rachel S.) died from cancerous disease of the perito- neum and abdominal viscera generally. Y. Diseases of Kidney and Urinary Function.—These cases were twelve in number. Two of them were dia- * In the relapsing fever of 1843-4, jaundice was very common, and something like black vomit occasionally occurred. But relapsing fever had been extinct in Edinburgh for years before this attack in Joseph A. and his daughter took place. Nor was the extremely lingering charac- ter of the illness in the least degree like relapsing fever, as observed either in 1843 or 1848.