A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton].

  • Christopher Robert Pemberton
Date:
1820
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    26/234 page 4
    [a examination of several such patients after death, but as I could discover no appear- ance, which might lead me to conclude that the complaint of the abdomen was any other than a symptomatic Peritonitis at- tacking a person, already labouring under great debility, I do not consider it 4s demanding any separate description. It must be regarded as a symptom only of the puerperal fever, and not as an idio- pathic disease of the Peritonzeum, which. alone falls within the purpose of the pre- sent discussion. | The Treatment. The nature of the disease being once dis- tinctly ascertained, the method of cure is obvious. In the first place it is necessary to bleed largely from the system :—sixteen ounces should be taken from an adult, and a proportionably less quantity from a pa- tient not arrived at that period. The practitioner ought solely to direct his attention to the degree of pain ex-
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3