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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    after the commencement of tlie attack, and continues through the whole course of the disease. Vomiting is also a common symp- tom, dependiug, in some measure, upon the part of the intestinal canal in which the dis- ease has its seat; if in the stomach, duode- num, jejunum, or ileum, more particularly in the first, this symptom is an invariable atten- dant; but when the colon is alone affected, there is occasionally no vomiting, though fre- cjuently it is equally violent, with that ^\ hich accompanies the attacks of either of the other parts; the matter vomited is of a waterj^ nature, mostly of a green colour, mixed with bile; yet, sometimes, even in fatal cases, it presents no unnatural appearance; but for the most part, before dissolution, it acquires a dark coffee- ground colour, and occasionally, strongly re- sembles feces. When this disease resides in the stomach and small intestines, it is attended with obstinate costiveness, but when in the colon, M ith a painful and wasting diarrhoea; in