Dissertatio medica inauguralis de hepatitide / [George Ward].

  • Ward, George
Date:
1814
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Credit: Dissertatio medica inauguralis de hepatitide / [George Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ret, hunc cranium inter heparque nexum ex- plicare. Saunders notans, bilem ab homini- bus mania laborantibus parce secerni, non du- bitat quin hie jecinoris torpor, ab hoc intimo consensu hujusce visceris cum capite pen- deat *. Medicus alter ingeniosus huic opini- oni favet ; his verbis utitur: “ I am informed by a gentleman, who has occasion to dissect a great many bodies, that in diseases of the brain, he never fails to find the liver diseased, either as a cause, or a consequence : the same gentle¬ man assures me, that the liver generally dis¬ covers the marks of recent inflammation, after fatal injuries of the head ; every surgeon being aware, that abscess of the liver is a common ef¬ fect of injury of the brain j\” Causa proocima— Quod ad causam hepatiti- dis proximam quidern pertinet, ab omnibus me- dicis conceditur earn ex inflammatione oriri; at inter se, de natura ipsius inflammationis multum discrepant. Non operae pretium foret, sen- * Saunders on the Liver. f Cases of Apoplexy and Lethargy, &c. by J. Cheyne, M. D.