A practical treatise on acute abdominal and pelvic inflammation : containing a comprehensive clinical view of inflammation of the stomach, bowels, peritoneum, uterus, &c. with a certain and expeditious method of cure / by David Nicholas Bates.

  • Bates, David Nicholas.
Date:
1829
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Credit: A practical treatise on acute abdominal and pelvic inflammation : containing a comprehensive clinical view of inflammation of the stomach, bowels, peritoneum, uterus, &c. with a certain and expeditious method of cure / by David Nicholas Bates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    paucity oi- a morbid increase of the secretio>i» |>eculiar to the parts occupied by it, but whicJk are generally in a depraved state. Chronic Inflammation, which is never an original affection, is more frequently seated in the substance of the solid viscera, viz. the Liver, Spleen, Pancreas, Kidneys, and Uterus; it may sometimes be found in the Peritoneum, or in the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach and Intestines,' but is always the consequence of Acute Inflammation. The character of Chronic Inflammation, in whatever part residing, is to produce in it a lingering disorder, in which the whole system participates, more or less, in proportion to the importance of the vi«cus occupied by it, and the extent of the disease. Sometimes the appa- rent disturbance it occasions is so slight, that this disease is not suspected to exist; until death happening from that, or some other cause, its presence is made manifest by dissection. Acute Inflammation, which is more par-