Researches respecting the medical powers of chlorine gas, particularly in diseases of the liver ... with ... a description of the apparatus used for its administration / [William Wallace].

  • Wallace, William, 1791-1837 or 1838.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Researches respecting the medical powers of chlorine gas, particularly in diseases of the liver ... with ... a description of the apparatus used for its administration / [William Wallace]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    riiis influence of the heart on the liver niay be considered as purely mechanical; and we also find, that the latter has the power of acting on the former in an analogous way. Thus, en¬ largements of the liver may press the dia¬ phragm upw^ards into the cavity of the thorax, and, by diminishing tlie size of this cavity, im¬ pede the motions of both the heart and lungs ; or the same state of the liver may, by pulling on the diaphragm, drag the pericardium, and con¬ sequently the heart; and, in this way, interrupt, ^ ery much, the functions of the latter oro-an.* * o These organs are, moreover, capable of influ¬ encing each other, as much by their sympathetic relations, as by their anatomical connexions. That the organ, which is the great agent in cir¬ culating the blood, should be connected, by the tranchant du foie dt-passo souvent de beaucoup le bord inferieur des parois^de la poitrine.” Cokvisart sur maladies du coeur, Paris. 1811, p. 440—4. See also p. 452.; and Portal, Malad. du Foie. p. 530, and OENAC. * “ Le volume du foie etant augmente, ou seulcment le lobe gauche ho¬ rizontal du foie etant trop tumefi^. alors des palpitations du coeur, des synco¬ pes sunuendront avec un resserrement de la poitrine, de sa partie moyenne et mfeneure particulierement; il y aura desdouleurs, ou des engourdisse- ment dans les q^auies et dans les bras, jusqu’aux cotidos, et memes de out le bras; enfin le malade eprouvera la maladie quo les Anglais ont epuis quelque temps appelee Peclorale. Portal, Maladies da Foie, p. 42 Sec also “ lircra de Stenocardie” or Angina Pcctons.