Practical observations on some of the diseases of the stomach and alimentary canal / by James Alderson.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Practical observations on some of the diseases of the stomach and alimentary canal / by James Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    dark-coloured fluid. At this time she complained of no pain, nor was any experienced on pressure. Iler pulse was very quick, and her tongue much furred. The bowels were confined. Her face was flushed, and she was inclined to drowsiness. She was at this time very fat in person, and of florid complexion. The history of the case consisted in her sickness having been experienced for some time, especially in the mornings, until about a week before I saw her, when the symptoms I was called to witness had become more urgent, and had not yielded to treatment. The drowsy state in which I found her gradually increased upon her, and she died in forty-eight hours. Inspection made by Mr. Wallis twenty-four hours after death. Body very fat. Several inches in the parietes of the abdomen. The stomach was found very much distended by the same kind of dark fluid which she had vomited. The intestines were also filled with the same dark-