Volume 1

A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton].

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera ... / [Christopher Robert Pemberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [9] first attack, so great a degree of prostration of strength, accompanied likewise by a pulse scarcely perceptible at the wrist, as might induce us to consider the patient at the point of death, and unequal to undergo the process above described. These ap- pearances however, arise wholly from the inflammation extending to the peritoneal coat of the stomach and intestines. Here, as before, the pain on pressure must be the criterion to determine our. practice, and if the pain should be found exquisite, no accidental symptom should lead us from trusting for relief entirely to the lancet. Such a decision will soon be justified by a freedom in the action of the arterial system, by an abatement of the languor, and by a diminution of the pain. The Chronic Inflammation of the Perito- nzcum is a disease, which, though cursorily introduced by writers,* yet has not, as far * Observatum a dectis hominibus video, gravissimis etiam doloribus urgerl Peritoneum consuésse, vel certe has mem-