Case of abdominal abscess, with extensive mortification, and recovery / by James Young, M.D.

  • Young, James.
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[1860]
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Credit: Case of abdominal abscess, with extensive mortification, and recovery / by James Young, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF ABDOMINAL ABSCESS, WITH EXTENSIVE MORTIFICATION, AND RECOVERY. By JAMES YOUNG, M.D., BDINBUBGH. RBPRINTBD FBOM THE EUINBUBQB MEDICAii JOUBNAL, APBIL 1860. I AM induced to lay this case before the profession, through the medium of your valuable Journal, because, as will be seen, it is one of extreme rarity, and, in other respects, of no ordinary interest. The patient, who is a merchant, set. 52, had occasion to visit the Shetland islands, on business, in the autumn of last year. He returned earW in September, after stormy voyages, in the course of which he suffered not a little from exposure to cold, and from sea- sickness. After returning, he had his hands ftill of business in executing orders; was not sensible of having received any injury or harm other than fatigue, but felt still unwell; nor did he recover his usual health till the end of the month. On the 2d of October, he was surprised to discover that the right side of the thorax and abdomen presented a swollen appearance, which he attributed to the exposure above mentioned, and mainly to cold ; with what justice does not very clearly ajjpear. After taking a colocynth pill, and the lapse of a week, without benefit or diminution of the swelling, he called in the aid of a physician, who very properly, to remove dyspepsia, prescribed a dose of oleum ricini, and afterwards several sinapisms, to allay the pain which he was suffering in the right iliac region, without, how- ever, any important result. On the 18th of October, the patient was removed to the house of a near relation in Edinburgh, where he was immediately after visited by several practitioners, wlio were disposed to attribute the malady to enlargement of the liver; but that opinion was speedily changed.