A synopsis of medical & surgical cases, at the Sheffield General Infirmary during twenty-two years / by Robert Ernest.

  • Ernest, Robert.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A synopsis of medical & surgical cases, at the Sheffield General Infirmary during twenty-two years / by Robert Ernest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed into a Tumour, weighing eight pounds, partly Scirrhus, partly Apostemous; the consequences of which, more or less remote, were an adhesion of the convex side of the liver to the peritonaeum ; an adhesion to that part of the lesser intestine near the Tumour to the peritonaeum, and the surface of the peritonaeum itself, to be covered with the co- agulable part of the pus, where it touched the Tumour. The total quantity of water taken from this patient amounted to 1414 pints, ~ 8 = 176 gallons 6 pints. Many other remarks might be brought forward upon other interesting cases ; but this being quite unnecessary on the present occasion, the writer here concludes what he intended to present to his medical friends. Infirmary, May 20, 1820. C. & W. THOMPSON, PRINTERS, SHEFFIELD.