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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    B9 cine, even to such as might aggravate the latter. The ihodeof treatment is simple—in children, a cure is gene* rally effected by the use of purgatives, and of the tepid gnd cold baths, by frictions of the abdomen, by exercise in the open air, and by a light and nutritious diet—much the same plan is to be obsei*ved in the treatment of adultf of relaxed habits, and who have lived on a low vvateiy diet; to which we may subjoin, the use of wine, bark and chalybeates—if these fail, recourse may be had to mercury.—In the full plethoric habit, induced by |loth and high living, the cure will depend on exercise and abstinence, and on tlie moderate exhibiiion of cathartics. I have enumerated fevers of difl'erent kinds among the causes of this complaint—and, now, in order to shew tlieif influence, especially that of tha intermittent, on tli6 biliary system, it may be proper to make the following observations. During the spring season of the last thre6 years, I prescribed for better than a hundred patients, ill cf the regular and irregular tertian, quartan, and quotidian fever—many of these were cases of long standing, and in such, the liver \Vas enlarged or indurated, or both—in a few, there were symptoms of low inflammation—in se- Terai, there was jaundice; in two of the strumous habit, scrofulo-schin-us was produced, which every endeavour to remove proved ineffectual—'Uiaiiy of the patients now mentioned were relieved at St. George's Dispensary—they came