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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    of the umbilicus or dysenteric symptoms—at times, it is combined with, and at others mistaken for, pneumonia, gastritis or enteritis, and it must be confessed, that it is not easy, on all occasions, to draw the line of distinc- tion ; nor is it, perhaps, of any great moment; for in- flammation is still the complaint to be combated, and whatever injury the practitioner may sustain from not forming a correct diagnosis, none can happen to the patient, if the plan of treatment pursued be anti- inflammatory. Acute hepatitis seldom appears in this kingdom— frequently within the tropics—some consider it as a disease sui-generis, and as peculiar to the East-Indies—like other inflammations it terminates by resolution or suppura- tion—the latter often occurs in the East-Indies, West-Indies and Africa, which may be ascribed, perhaps, to the mode of treatment, and to the influence of a powerful predisposing cause, I mean, the long continued action of an overheated atmosphere.—^Tbe occasional causes are the same as in the chronic, violent exercise, intemperance in the use of wine or spirituous liquors^ exposure to the rays of a vertical sun, especially if the head be uncovered, &g.—^The treatment of acute hepatitis is so similar to that of the chronic, which we have already considered, that it will not be necessary to speak of it at great length; I shall only observe, as the dis- ease assumes a more alarming appearance in the acute, our active