Cases of great enlargement of the stomach : with remarks / by John Home Peebles.

  • Peebles John Home, -1867.
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[1840]
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Credit: Cases of great enlargement of the stomach : with remarks / by John Home Peebles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ! i •» CASES OF GHREAT ENLARGEMENT OF THE STOMACH, WITH REMARKS, BY John Home Peebles, M. D., Member of the I. and R. College of Physicians, Florence; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician in Ordinary to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. {Prom the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 144.) I I . The stomach has occasionally been found pretcrnaturally dis- tended, dilated, or, more correctly speaking, enlarged to such an extent, as to fill the whole of the abdomen from the epigastrium to the pubis. A large accumulation of fluid almost always accom- panies this morbid condition of the viscus; and the name of drop' sy of the stomach has been assigned to it by some authors. This enlargement of the organ is not unfrequently attended wiih dis- ease of the internal and muscular coats, and sometimes of the py- A ^3