Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras presidency / by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1829
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    no pain on pressure being made upon the abdo- men : indeed he frequently makes but little men- tion of any other painful sensation than of that of a colicky nature, and what accompanies the spasms, and of the burning sensation in the ab- domen, to which I have already referred. In some cases, however, excruciating pain of the abdomen, stomach, and limbs, is complained of, and is aggra- vated by the recurring spasms and evacuations. In respect of the appearance of the stools, and of the matters thrown off the stomach in this stage of the disease, I may remark that, when the bowels have not been fully emptied during the previous stage, the stools which are the first evacuated generally vary in appearance, accord- ing as the matters lodged in the intestines may modify their character; but they commonly as- sume the appearance of congee-water, with floc- culent matter floating in them, or matter of a still more albuminous character. But almost in no case of the disease do we find, in this stage, any appearance of bile in the stools ; nor is bile ever observed in them until the violence of the malady has received a check, and until it is allowed to flow into the duodenum, either from this circumstance and the spontaneous re- laxation of the spasms of the duodenum and biliary ducts, or from the operation, upon these parts, and upon the liver itself, of the remedies employed. As to the appearance of the matters thrown