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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    —The affection had been previously deemed a Dis- ease of the Heart, and had been treated with the di- gitalis. .56. This case was thus so far modified in its differ- ent periods as to assume the characters of three differ- ent diseases, Phthisis, Icterus, and Disease ef the Heart. It therefore affords an interesting illustration of the general character of this affection, and of the propriety of the denomination adopted for it. 57. Case X. Mr. D. S. aged 53. He was in- disposed nearly in the manner about to be described, in May, 1817. The complaint had come on slowly and gradually. It was removed by pills composed of the pil. hydrarg. and rhubarb.—The affection returned, and made at first a slow, and afterwards a more rapid progress. In November last, he became incapable of supporting the fatigue of an easy occupation. About Christmas his complaint made serious advances, and I saw him again on January the 5th. On this day he was affected with an emaciated countenance, a tre- mulous state of the lips, adarknessof complexion, and a clammy perspiration on the cheeks near the nose. The tongue was loaded, especially at the back part, with bright red papillae at the point, and redness of its sides, ,and it exhaled a halituous moisture; the breath was extremely foetid. He was extremely fee- ble, almost incapable of walking, and affected with great and constant tremor, and with a sense of weari-