Inflammations of the liver, and their sequelae : atrophy, cirrhosis, ascites, haemorrhages, apoplexy, and hepatic abscesses.

  • Harley, George, 1829-1896.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Inflammations of the liver, and their sequelae : atrophy, cirrhosis, ascites, haemorrhages, apoplexy, and hepatic abscesses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    suppuration of the liver was a far more common disease in England than was generally supposed. I am not now speaking of any particular variety of abscess, but of hepatic abscesses in general; for all kinds of abscesses are met with in India, as well as in England, and no dis- tinction that I can see is made in the above-cited Indian hospital statistics. The Diagnosis of Inflammatory Affections of thb Liver. I shall now proceed to place before the reader what I consider to be the most salient factors conducive to the proper diagnosing of any given case of inflammation of the Uver. Signs and Symptoms of Hepatitis. It being chiefly on a recognisable increase in the size of the hepatic organ, upon which we depend in estimat- ing the extent, as well as the gravity of an inflammation attacking it, I may begin my remarks on diagnosis by reminding the reader that although the actual cubic dimensions of the hver is much about the same in all persons of similar ages, the normal dull area varies not only in a man and woman, but according to the height of the individual. In a person of 5 feet 7 inches it is calcu- lated at 4 inches in the perpendicular right nipple line. In one of 5 feet at 3^ inches. While in one of 6 feet or more 4^ inches are thought to be about the average ex- tent of the dulncss. The liver's dulnoss is usually said to begin about two inches l^olow the nipple. But whore it