Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms. Including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / John Abernethy.

  • Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.
Date:
1829
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms. Including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE III. A gentleman applied to me with a thick- ened and tender state of the periosteum of his tibia. This disease had troubled him for more than a year, but became at last so extremely painful, that he declared he had not slept for three months, and that his life was so intolerable that he resolved to un- dergo a course of mercury, even though, in the opinion of those surgeons whom he had consulted, his disease was not venereal. The duration of the disease, as it had made no greater progress, induced me to coincide in the opinion which had been given him. His tongue was much furred, his appetite was moderate, and he was not conscious that his digestion was otherwise than good. His bowels were perfectly regular. I de- sired him to take five grains of the pilul. hydrarg. every second night ; but before he took them to remark the colour of the dis- charges from his bowels, and to observe whether the medicine produced any change. In a week’s time, he called upon me, and