Observations on the use and abuse of mecurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the use and abuse of mecurial medicines in various diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    But in Great Britain, the change of struc- ture of the liver, which eventually ends in suppuration or scirrhosity, is found to arise only from mismanaged intermittents, or from scrofula, or from the abuse of intoxi- cating liquors. Enlargement of that part, however, is the effect of other causes, viz. tu- bercles, hydatids, and what are called tubera* As it is not intended in these pages to in- vestigate minutely the various diseases of that important viscus, it is sufficient for the purpose of this publication, to state, that in the living subject it has been found extreme- ly difficult to distinguish the different alte- rations of texture, which take place even in cases where the progress of the disease is so far advanced that the patient is almost mo- ribund. From inattention to this well established fact, it has been too generally supposed, that when enlargement of the liver can be readily recognised by careful examination, it is war-