Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / translated by T. F.Reynolds.

  • Aretaeus, of Cappadocia.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Of the causes and signs of acute and chronic disease / translated by T. F.Reynolds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. ON ILEUS. 1 There is an inflammation which arises in the bowels, r, which brings on a pain that is destructive of life, for r, many perish from the violence of the griping. A cold ! sluggish flatus is engendered, that cannot easily pass u up or down, but remains involved in the small '1 folds of the superior intestines, and hence the disease -i is called “ Ileus.” If, added to the griping, there be t a soddening and softening of the bowels, and the •I lower part of the belly be very prominent, the affec- ] tion is “ Chordapsos,” for the term “Epsesis” has the { same meaning as “ Malthaxis,” (i. e. a soddening or ' softening), and “ Chorde ” is an epithet for the bowels, 1 for formerly the mesentery, which consists of the cen- J tral nerves, vessels, and suspensory membranes of the J bowels, was called “ Epichordis.” The cause of “ Ileus” is the continued corruption ) of a quantity of various unusual sorts of food, and of ) one crudity following another, especially on those » causes that are liable to produce griping, such as the i ink of the cuttle-fish. It may be looked for after a ‘ blow, cold, the greedy or profuse drinking of cold water when in a state of perspiration, and in those