A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton ; with notes by John Hayes.

  • Pemberton, Christopher Robert, 1765-1822.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A practical treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera / by Christopher Robert Pemberton ; with notes by John Hayes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fomentations may be also applied to the abdomen, and the strictest antiphlogistic diet should be enforced. This is a disease full of danger. Women are more- subject to it than men. I have known it take place in a child of four years old, and in adults of all ages. It may be right to mention an irregularity in the complaint, which, if unnoticed, might deter a prac- titioner from having recourse to those vigorous mea- sures so essential to counteract the magnitude of the danger. There is now and then, at the very first at- tack, so great a degree of prostration of strength, ac- companied likewise by a pulse scarcely perceptible at the wrist, as might induce us to consider the patient at the point of death, and unequal to undergo the pro- cess above described. These appearances however, arise wholly from the inflammation extending to the peritonaeal coat of the stomach and intestines. Here, as before, the pain on pressure must be the criterion to determine our practice, and if the pain should In found exquisite, no accidental symptom should lead us from trusting for relief entirely to the lancet. Such