A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A descriptive, diagnostic and practical essay on disorders of the digestive organs and general health, and particularly on their numerous forms and complications, contrasted with some acute and insidious diseases : being an attempt to prosecute the views of Dr. Hamilton and Mr. Abernethy, and a second edition of the essay On the mimoses, with additions / by Marshall Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE MIMOSES. i. There is a Class of Disorders, each of which consists of a more general morbid affection, usually combined with some topical symptom or symptoms. 2. The general affection is complex and various; the complications are multiform and changeable, and, by their incidental predominance, frequently imitate other diseases widely different in their nature. 3. These affections have been variously and per- haps too exclusively attributed, by some authors, to a state of derangement in one or more of the ehylo- poetic viscera; and by others, to an unequal and undue distribution of the blood, by which a state of arterial excitement or of venous congestion is induced B