Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, published according to their request, / by Alex P. Buchan ; to which are added, tables of symptoms.

  • Buchan, A. P. (Alexander Peter), 1764-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Symptomatology, or, The art of detecting disease : a lecture occasionally read to the pupils at the Westminster Hospital, published according to their request, / by Alex P. Buchan ; to which are added, tables of symptoms. 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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    pepsia, or rather complete loss of appetite, accompanied with extreme extenuation. He continued, however, to take small quantities of food, till the time of his death. On examination of the body, a large portion of the stomach was found converted into a hard schirrous mass, in- terspersed with dark-coloured tubercles, presenting altogether the character of cancer. In other parts of the stomach there were a number of apertures, which, during life, must have been connected by adhesive inflammation with the neigh- bouring viscera, by which the escape of the contents of the stomach into the ab- dominal cavity was prevented. Notwith-^ standing: the existence of this mass of dis- ease, the patient never made any other complaint, than of a dull burning pain at the pit of the stomach. But although