Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases, and on aneurisms : including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / by John Abernethy.

John Abernethy

Date:: 1829

Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases, and on aneurisms : including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$because it seemed worthy of record by itself, but chiefly to prepare the reader for the observations which are to follow. The slighter degree of disorder occurs in o o the advanced stages of lumbar abscess, dis- eased joints, compound fractures, and all kinds of local disease, which impart consi- derable and continued irritation to the whole constitution. We also find a less important disease, as, for instance, a fretful ulcer, keep up a disorder of the system in genera], and of the digestive organs in par- ticular, which subsides as the irritable state ol the ulcer diminishes. But as practitioners in general may not perhaps have so atten- tively remarked these circumstances as to be familiarly acquainted with them, it may be useful to notice a very common occur- rence, which cannot have escaped observ- ation. I allude to the effects of the irritation of teething upon the health of children. I he brain is sometimes so affected as to cause convulsions; the digestive organs are almost constantly disordered. The appetite fails ; the tongue is furred ; the secretions of vol. i. r$