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.

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    appeared to be recovering, when, in consequence of some error in diet, he had a relapse, on account of which I was sent for; I found him delirious and sullen, his face flushed a bright scarlet, his tongue white, as if stained with milk, his pulse frequent and undulating, his bowels open, the evacuations liquid and rather bloody; the abdomen, which was not dis- tended by air, was very carefully examined, and no pain or even tenderness was discovered any where on pressure. The following day he seemed, on the whole, rather better ; but while at the night-table he experienced a sensation as if something had given way in the right iliac region. I found him after this in bed, pale, anxious, but without de- lirium, and complaining of exquisite pain in his abdomen; the pulse weak, but sharp and rapid. He soon again became delirious; he vomited dark coffee-coloured fluid, and died in twenty hours after the period of the rupture. Examination of the Body twenty-four hours after death. On opening the abdomen, the whole peritoneal coat was injected with blood, giving a pinky hue all