A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. F.R.S.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton, M.D. F.R.S. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [3] This pain is much increased by pressure : it produces no inclination to go to stool 5 the pulse is at least one hundred in a minute, and small, and the tongue has a natural appearance. In the course of about twenty-four hours, the pain becomes more exquisite on pressure, and the pulse rises to a hundred and twenty, or a hundred and thirity in a minute : at this time the tongue begins to be covered with a cream-col- oured mucus, and though it is moist, there is great thirst. A considerable degree of swelling and tension now takes place ever the whole ab- domen, and the patient finds most relief from pain by remaining motionless upon the back, with the knees in a small degree elevated. This tension continues to increase to the sixth, sev- enth, or eighth day, on one of which days, unless proper means have been taken to re- move the disease, the patient most commonly expires. This is the Peritonitis of Cullen. It may be distinguished from every other disease