A guide to old age, or a cure for the indiscretions of youth / [William Brodum].

  • Brodum, William
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to old age, or a cure for the indiscretions of youth / [William Brodum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5* ] full quick tenfe pulfe, and the fymp* toms of inflammation in general. It terminates and is cured in all the various ways of other inflammations. If the tumour fuppurate and point externally, it may be treated as a common abcefs, and be opened. If it burft, and the contents fall into the abdomen, a purulent afcites is the confequence. If it ends in a fchirrus, it produces what is called the black jaundice, a difeafe well known by the black lead colour call: upon the countenance, which is generally, therefore, efteemed a dan- gerous fymptom, though in fome in- franc es thought favourable of by Van Sweiten, who relates the cafe of a perfon laboring under this difeafe, who was cured by living upon vegetables only. In difeafes of the liver, proceeding from inflammation, large and repeated bleedings from the arm, or the region of the' liver itfelf, by the application E a of