Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874 / by Charles Murchison.

  • Murchison, Charles, 1830-1879.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver, jaundice and abdominal dropsy : including the Croonian lectures on functional derangements of the liver delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in 1874 / by Charles Murchison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Xlll LECTURE XII. FLUID IN THE PERITONEUM. PAGK Its Signs—The Conditions whicli Simulate it, and how to distingiiisli them: 1. Ovarian Cyst; 2. Hydatid Cyst; 3. Renal Cyst; 4. Distended Urinarj^ Bladder; 5. Pregnant Uterus—Causes of Fluid in Peritoneum: I. Acute Peritonitis; II. Tubercular Peritonitis; HI. Chronic Peri- tonitis; rV. Cancer; V. Colloid; VI. Simple Dropsy: 1. From Disease of Kidneys; 2. From Disease of Heart or Lungs; 3. From Portal Ohstruction 434 LECTURE XIII. A. HEPATIC PAIN. Simulated by: 1. Pleurodynia; 2. Intercostal Neuralgia; 3. Pleurisy; 4. Gastric Dyspepsia; 5. Intestinal Colic; 6. Renal Colic—The Varieties and Causes of genuine Hepatic Pain ..... 482 B. GALL-STONES. Their various Consequences, Symptoms, and Treatment .... 487 C. ENLARGEMENTS OF GALL-BLADDEPw Their Causes, Clinical Characters, and Treatment 523 LECTURE XIV. THE CROONIAN LECTURES ON FUNCTIONAL DERANGEMENTS OF THE LIVER. Notice of Doctor Croone—Present Notions as to Functional Derangements of Liver unsatisfactory—A. Functions of the Liver in Health. Historical Sketch; Galen's Views; Obsequies of Liver by Bartholin ; Modern Views ; Functions of Liver Threefold : I. Sanguification and Nutrition; II. Disintegration of Albuminous Matter; HI. Secretion of Bile— Composition, Origin, Quantity, and Uses of Bile—b. Functional De- rangements of Liver—Objections to Existing Classification—Proposed Classification: I. Abnormal Nutrition: 1. Corpulence; 2. Emaciation —A. Deficiency of Bile ; B. Diabetes; c. Other Varieties of Emaciation. II. Abnormal Elimination; Symptoms of Retained Bile; Cholestearsemia 530 LECTURE XV. THE CROONIAN LECTURES ON FUNCTIONAL DERANGEMENTS OF THE LIVER. IH. Abnormal Disintegration : 1. Lithsemia; 2. Gout; 3. Urinary Calculi; 4. Biliary Calculi; 5. Degenerations of the ludneys and Albuminuria; 6. Structural Diseases of the Liver; 7. Degenerations of Tissue throughout Body ; 8. Local Inflammations ; 9. 'Constitutional Diseases' —^IV. Derangements of Organs of Digestion : 1. Tongue; 2. Appetite;