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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    Does, then, this morbid action, which is here styled acute inflammatory,'' consist of nervous irritation ? The facts, that acute pain is inseparable from it; that it is transferable to a distant part, as in cases of Metastasis; that its course, in .the abdomen and pelvis, is instantly arrested by the exhibition of the Opiate Enema; and that the extreme vessels, rendered turgid by its agency, return to their natmal state, Avhen this irritation is removed, all conspire to prove its basis to be nervous. The comparative insusceptibility of the solid viscera to acute inflammation, appears to pro- ceed from the want of a smooth connected internal surface upon which the mouths of the extreme vessels might form a congeries; so that when this, disease takes place in them, it is always very circumscribed; or, if the whole body of the viscus be affected, it is evident that there has been no unity of action in the disease, from the efi'ects produced, as these generally