Clinical researches on the therapeutic action of chloride of ammonium in the treatment of hepatic disease / by William Stewart.

  • Stewart, William.
Date:
1879
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    cases affording actual support to the system, while the abscess is either being absorbed, or is discharged by operation, or makes its escape by one of the usual channels. 4. That it affords much relief in cases of mechani- cal hypercemia of the liver, the result of cardiac or pulmonary obstruction. 5. That it is highly efficacious in cases of jaundice depending on hepatic congestion with retention of bile ; and in certain functional derangements often ascribed to ' torpor of the liver'—attended by lithoe- mia (Murchison), indicated by the appearance in the urine on cooling of deposits of lithic acid, lithates, and pigmentary matters—associated with congestion of the liver, want of sleep, and depression of spirits. 6. That although the characteristic action of the medicine, (general and special,) is most marked in cases of congestion of the liver and primary acute hepati- tis, still we must not expect to find the same speedy relief from pain and general improvement, in all the symptoms, to follow its use in every instance, without reference to the stage of the disease in which it is administered, the temperament of the patient, the diathesis, or the existence of the various cachexias, as well as the complication of other diseases. - 7. That when the sensible and characteristic action of the medicine is manifested in any given obscure case, such characteristic action is diagnostic of hepatic disease. A more extended clinical experience has served to confirm the views then enunciated, to clear up