The stomach in its morbid state; being a practical inquiry into the nature and treatment of diseases of that organ, and into the influence they exercise upon the origin, progress, and termination of diseases of the liver, heart, lungs, and brain / [Langston Parker].

  • Parker, Langston, 1805?-1871.
Date:
1838
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Credit: The stomach in its morbid state; being a practical inquiry into the nature and treatment of diseases of that organ, and into the influence they exercise upon the origin, progress, and termination of diseases of the liver, heart, lungs, and brain / [Langston Parker]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    points in patches the size of a sixpence. The same appearances were observed, with some slight modifications, throughout the duo- denum. The liver was enlarged, but not to a great extent; its sub- stance softened, with small collections of pus in different parts. Remarks.—The history of this case clearly demonstrates the commencement of the diseases of the abdominal viscera in the sto- mach. We have here a person addicted to dram-drinking troubled with dyspeptic symptoms, which suddenly assume the appearance of gastritis ; this relieved, in its more serious symptoms, by a sud- den and spontaneous hemorrhage from the rectum, not dependent upon hemorrhoidal disease. The symptoms still, however, con- tinue in a minor degree, which is evident from the painful diges- tion, with the epigastric pain and tenderness. The patient, after a time, becomes anasarcous, ascitic, and dies from effusion into the chest. The post-mortem appearances confirm the symptoms ob- served during life: extensive inflammatory disease of the pyloric portion of the stomach, proceeding along the duodenum to the liver, where it terminates in suppuration, most probably from the propagation or extension of the inflammatory action from the mu- cous membrane of the duodenum to that lining the common and the hepatic ducts.