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.

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    amsist of tubercles,* which are sometimes numerous, having a space between each. Does not this show that thev have been formed sue- cessively, or, that if their formation lias been synchronous, tliat the action, which produced them, was isolated? These tubercles are the production of chro- nic inflammation, into which acute inflamma- tion, from the peculiar structure of these parts, soon degenerates, more particularly in scrofu- lous persons, whose comparatively debile vas- cular system is particularly favourable to its establishment. For the reasons above assigned, it but rarely happens, that the existence of acute inflamma- tion, when thus situated, is suspected, much less detected, during life; the pain proceeding from it being so circumscribed and compara- tively trifling, to that which attends this disease when seated in the peritoneum. It may be collected from the facts adduced,
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