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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    into two' stages, for the views of the physician will be thus directed* not merely to the removal of the affection of the alimentary canal* but of the cause in which this affection so often originates: and that great derangement of the stomach and intestines proceeds from over-excitement of the hepatic vessels, is certain; because such derangement uniformly attends such excitement, because the fever which accompanies inflammation of less important organs, disturbs the digestive process, and cases daily occur where the reason now ascribed for such derangement exists and no other, moreover, the sympathy and connexion subsisting between these viscera render a morbid action of the one incompatible with the healthy condition of the others. The causes of this complaint are various—it proceeds from violent exercise, accidents, the stronger passions, anxiety of mind, excessive heat, suppressed perspiration, excess in eating and drinking, constipation, schirrus, fever continued and intermittent, and from inflammation of r ’» - f the neighbouring viscera. Of these causes, one of the most common in this country, seems to be anxiety of mind. This complaint is often confounded with that named Dyspepsia, when the medicines usually adminis¬ tered must aggravate its violence; such are, chalybeates, f - T / r r hitters, astringents, sulphuric acid, &e. &c. &c; and though it must be owned, that appearances at the onset of