Volume 2

Commentaries principally on those diseases of females which are constitutional / [Marshall Hall].

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857
Date:
[after 1835]
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Credit: Commentaries principally on those diseases of females which are constitutional / [Marshall Hall]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the aspect, the progress, the symptoms, and the effects of the affection were such as to induce the conviction that it was of a fatal kind. The following case is more detailed, and the symptoms are connected with the morbid anatomy. It is only one of many, in which I have observed the characteristics of this disease, and confirmed the diagnosis by post-mortem examination. It occurred in the male sex, but I am not aware that this circumstance would at all modify the symptoms. Mr. ——, aged 21, first began to complain four years ago; two years ago he observed a loss of flesh, and of strength, and an incapacity for his usual business and exercise, and a degree of cold- ness and lividity of the end of the nose: during the last year and half he has been affected with a short hacking cough, and with a degree of pain and tenderness on the right side of the abdomen below the navel ; and during the last half year he has been unusually sensible to cold, becoming chill whenever a door is left accidentally open, and being affected with a livid and clammy coldness of the fingers. These affections have made a slow and insidious progress ; the thinness, loss of