The principles of diagnosis / by Marshall Hall.

  • Hall, Marshall, 1790-1857.
Date:
1834
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    these cases is most important; the prognosis and the treatment alike depend upon it. 177. With these affections it will he highly useful to contrast those denominated delirium tremens and erethismus mercurialis. ARRANGEMENT OF IRRITATION, EXHAUSTION, &c. I. Intestinal Irritation. II. Exhaustion from Loss of Blood. I. Immediate. II. Remote. \. Reaction. 2. Sinking. III. Delirium tremens. IV. Erethismus mercurialis. i. intestinal irritation. 178. I. The History. The most frequent cause of this affection is a disordered state of the contents of the colon ; the next is some indiges- tible substance taken into the stomach. But as the mere presence of a calculus in the ureter is not always sufficient alone to induce an attack of pain and vomiting, so a deranged condition of the intestinal contents will not, alone, induce an attack of the morbid affection which I am about to describe ; in general some superadded cause, VOL. II. F