A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal visceria [sic] / by Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. F.R.S.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal visceria [sic] / by Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 39] ner unable to find a free passage. It is there- fore retained in that vein, and thus causes a sensation of undulation. From the want of a free passage for the ve- nous blood arise the haemorrhages, which often take place from the stomach, intestines, and nose : on the nose also, and on the forehead, pimples are observed frequently to break out. These appearances, therefore, when they oc- cur repeatedly, should warn us to make mi nute inquiry respecting the state of the Liver. The botly in this disease becomes much ema- ciated, and in the advanced stages a dropsy of the belly takes place, by which the patient is destroyed. There is but little risk of this form of the malady being mistaken for a disease of any other part, though there are various modifi- cations of chronically diseased Liver itself, which, as far as I have observed, afford no peculiarity of symptoms, by which they can be distinguished from each other. This is