Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills.

  • Mills, Thomas.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the light shoulder, accompanied by the various symptomfl which denote considerable derangement of the natural functions.—Within the last four months, the pains have become more violent and lancinating; they come on instane taneously, and often so acutely, that he gives an involun- tary shi'iek, and IS obliged if walking, to stop short; he presses his hand upon the part affected, and sometimes throws himself down in agony upon the floor.—A low de- gree of fever is present; during the paroxysm the pulse is little disturbed, but the countenance expresses torment of body and anguish of mind.—^The bowels are constipated, tlie fceces preternatural, and at times purulent and flanious.—The urine is of a red or coffee colour, the com- plexion, of a deep mahogany.—This gentleman has been twice salivated—emaciation and increase of fever and parri were the consequences.—Blisters rather aggravate than relieve—opiates and purgatives alone, afford any considerable ease—the muria.ed tincture of iron improved the appetite, and, for a few weeks, appeared to diminish the violence of the pain—with this medicine he fell out, but, again had recourse to it, and with ad vantage.—This patient was sent to the country,—His father died of a cancer of the upper iip. IMiss M. aged 36, of a sanguine temperament and strumous habit, complained, for seven years, of shooting pain* in the right iiypochondre—not long ago, these pains became