Researches on the pathology of the intestinal canal ... / [John Abercrombie].

  • Abercrombie, John, 1780-1844.
Date:
[1820?]
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Credit: Researches on the pathology of the intestinal canal ... / [John Abercrombie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RESEARCHES ON THE PATHOLOGY OF THE INTESTINAL CANAL. t PART I. By John Abercrombie, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. A fter all that has been written on this subject, the pathology u of the intestinal canal still presents an interesting field of investigation. When we consider the delicacy of its structure, its great extent, and the important functions which it has to perform, we expect to find its diseases numerous and dangerous, and in their nature often obscure and intricate. Externally it is a serous membrane, and liable to the diseases incident to that particular structure ; internally it is a mucous membrane, and liable to the diseases of mucous membranes ; and it is, besides, through its whole extent, a muscular organ, upon the healthy action of every part of which it constantly depends for the pro¬ per discharge of its functions. It is six times the length of the body to which it belongs, and connected with it there are the delicate organs concerned in digestion and absorption, which have diseases peculiar to themselves. The acute diseases of the intestinal canal seem to arrange themselves under two heads. (1.) Diseases affecting it as a A