An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes : and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body : with engravings / by John Baron, M.D., physician to the general infirmary at Gloucester.

  • John Baron
Date:
1819
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Credit: An enquiry illustrating the nature of tuberculated accretions of serous membranes : and the origin of tubercles and tumours in different textures of the body : with engravings / by John Baron, M.D., physician to the general infirmary at Gloucester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ii ii 22 SEROUS ME3IBI1ANES. and exclaim piteously, Oh! so heavy. Ano- ther said, that his howels felt as if they were tied up in a napkin. At another time he said, they seemed to he in a mass ; and at a third, he declared, that if he had a shot attached to every convolution of his intestines, he could not suffer more than he did. These expressions v^ere uttered by a profes- sional man. They were singularly applicable to iiis situation, though he himself was not aware of its real nature. A description of the morbid appearances, com- pletely illustrates the s}Tiiptoms of this malady. The stomach and intestines can perform none of their functions; and the necessary aliment acts as a foreign body, and occasions dreadful distress, Tlie natural source for replenishing the frame being tluis cut off, the system feeds upon itself, as long as matter suflicient can be taken up by tlie absorbents, to keep the vital functions in action. Hucli is a brief but faitliful history of tlie leading sym])t()ms of this disease. Tlie change of structure indicated by them is universal ac- cretion of the peritouicuni, binding all the con-