A few interesting remarks on bilious disorders, particularly the jaundice, and yellow fever, &c. : highly important to persons of fashion, the sedentary, and those who inhabit or frequent tropical climates, recommending the anti-bilious powder, a certain and experienced remedy / by Robert Priestley.

  • Priestley, Robert, -1799.
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1798
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Credit: A few interesting remarks on bilious disorders, particularly the jaundice, and yellow fever, &c. : highly important to persons of fashion, the sedentary, and those who inhabit or frequent tropical climates, recommending the anti-bilious powder, a certain and experienced remedy / by Robert Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P\Iorus, or lower orifice of the stomach, a schirrus in that very sensible part may arise a cruel disorder attended by vomitings, a weight, and afterwards pain in the part, productive of death ; the patient perishing with hunger, and after having felt the sharpness and cor- ruption of the humours, and above all of the Bile, which is always disordered, and sometimes black and foetid.* We may sum up and conclude this me- lancholy detail of afflicting maladies, in the words of an author, to whose work' we are indebted for many valuable obser- vations; The usual consequences of *' large or numerous biliary concretions, when they cannot be discharged, and *' the patient escaping other fatal diseases, lives long enough for them to produce their genuine effects, are, an ill habit of body, a continued Jaundice, and a wast- ing of flesh and strength, and at last an incurable Dropsy. t It must be observed that in warm cli-, mates the most healthy constitutions are sub-. * Tissot. + Dr. Coe, cn Biliary Concretions.