Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew
Date:
1765
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Credit: Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the other, namely, fpafmodic pain, endeavours to relieve itfelf by a tranfla- tion of the pain to other parts: hence it is that fpafmodic pain is frequently fhifting from place to place; whereas inflammatory pain fhifts not, nor is re¬ lieved, but by refolution, fuppuration or mortification. I have noticed before that the one tends always to deprefs the pulfe, while the other raifes it, and excites an inflammatory or fymptomatic fever: for this reafon, though an obftinate and vehement degree of either will pro¬ duce mortification, yet in the one cafe it is more confined to the feat of the obftrudtion and pain; in the other fuch a general languor is imprefied upon the whole vital actions, that it is apt to land in a general ftagnation of the circula¬ tion and death- of the other members, almoft as foon as in the original feat of the pain itfelf. Hyfteric and hypochrondriac difor- ders, though they are reducible to M the
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