Observations on hepatic diseases incidental to Europeans in the East-Indies.

  • Mathews, Stephen.
Date:
1783
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    phragm, which was very fpongy and flac- cid; the liver of a dark red colour, and weighed feven pounds, in the fubftance of this bowel, there were many cyfts filled with yellow pus. This man had been under a courfe of medicine near fix weeks before his death, and was judged to be recovering; how far the poflibility may be admitted of this man's exifting with his vifcera in this ftate, we fhall not pre- tend to determine; certain it is, that he, from a very enfeebled ftate, was now able to take fome exercife, and his appetite was tolerably good. We have many *inftan- * A very remarkable infrance of this kind has lately occurred in a quadruped, perfectly healthy, and the Bern very good. The liver of this animal was very fmall, and full of cyfts and yellow pus, the right lobe of the lungs entirely collapfed, and muft have been long ufelefs. Between the lower ribs and liver we took an encyfted tumour of the fteatomous kind, which weighed four pounds, of a very round fhape ; one fide of it adhered to the inferior ribs, and the neck which was a fmall protuberance, was tied to the dia- phragm with two ftrong filamentous ligaments. A fingular circumftance is, that this tumour had not any veffels to nourifh it, neither was it any where jrerforated to admit the egrefs or circulation of its contents, the ligaments not apparently having any cavity in them. ces