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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    aged 21, in a young man aged 22, in a soldier aged 30, and in a lady aged 50. Some of the symptoms ot Phthisis Pulmonalis are often superadded to those of Diseased Mesentery; and this disease is often con- joined, in a greater or less degree, with Phthisis.—I intend to republish the cases which were inserted in the first edition of this work, together with some others which I have witnessed more recently, in ano- ther place; they will be contrasted with some cases of Insidious Inflammation of the Peritonaeum. 76. There is an Effect of Drunkenness which resembles in many symptoms the severer form of the Mimosis Acuta; and as it admits less readily of cure, it is important to distinguish the two affections.—In this Effect of Drunkenness there are great weakness, tremor, and emaciation. The case is characterized by a peculiar state of countenance;—there is emacia- tion ; the expression is much lost; and the eyes assume a peculiar streaked, yellow colour. The tongue and mouth are loaded, and perhaps dry, and there is a jpeculiar foetor of the breath. The manner of the pa- tient is dull, and often slovenly. There is a consider- able loss of flesh. There is often a total loss of appe- tite. The bowels are generally loose. There are, I think, fewer of the complications noticed § 34, than in the Mimosis Acuta. But there is more frequently organic disease.—Particular inquiry should therefore be made into the Habits of a patient affected witfi symptoms of the Mimosis Acuta.