Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills.

  • Mills, Thomas.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Observations on the diseases of the liver, and on the effects of mercury in their treatment : with some account of the scrofulo-schirrus, or, consumption of the liver / by Thomas Mills. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case. A gentleman of hale constitution, m the vigour of life, complained of shootmg pains throughout the right hypochondriac and in the epigastric regions^ attended by a low irregular fever—the blue pill was given, and two scruples of the mercurial wntment Were rubbed in nightly upon the side affected, h^j \<'as put on a full diet, and a pint of wine was allpwe4 daily to promote the opei'ation of the mercujry'-Tnat theeXr piration of a week the gums were affected, but the pain of side became more acute, and febrile symptoms set in, accompanied by gripes and general soreness of tlie abdo- men—such were the consequences of the mercurial action and of the full regimen—the symptoms indi- cated the necessity of a change of treatraent.-n- Twolvie ounces of blood were taken from the ann-r—twelvc leeches were applied in the vicinity of tlie part affected, purgatives were freely administered and tfee sedative regimen adopted j-^^by following up this plan,' the disease'was finally removed.—A long fatiguing jdnrney and Jhental anxiety were the causes to which this complaint was ascribed.—This gentleman, in the first in- StaiiCe,' was attacked with chronic, to which succeeded actlffe hepatitis, the effect of the stimulating powers of mercury and of tlie heating regimen. Case. In March 1810, I prescribed for a lady who had been ill several weeks of low inflammation of the right lobe of the Liver—the skin and tunica conjunctiva of Case.