This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...by assisting the general health, be kept for many years from spreading. Where frequent inflammations, with a considerable degree of fever, cannot be prevented, there the flesh and strength more rapidly decrease; and if the inflammation be great enough to occasion a suppuration, the only chance of a recovery is. from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1802 Excerpt: ...by assisting the general health, be kept for many years from spreading. Where frequent inflammations, with a considerable degree of fever, cannot be prevented, there the flesh and strength more rapidly decrease; and if the inflammation be great enough to occasion a suppuration, the only chance of a recovery is. from the breaking of the abscess in such a manner, as that the matter may be carried off by the hepatic duct, or when the inflammation of the liver has made it adhere to the parietes of the abdomen, in which a tumour forms, and is opened, or burst, externally. I have knewn one or two recover in such circumstances, but more who have sunk. In some, a great abscess of the liver has appeared to have made its way preternaturally into the "stomach, or bowels; and immediately, upon the bursting of it into these parts, the patients void, by vomiting and purging, a most offensive matter, filling a whole house with its noisome smell, and die in a few hours. P A woman A woman fifty years of age was for ten days severely afflicted with pain of the stomach, hiccup, purging, and faintings, and with difficulty struggled through it. A month after there arose a swelling near the navel, which was opened, and discharged a great quantity of yellow fluid for the space of four years; at length the pain increased, together with sickness, and shivering, and after a few days there was discharged a gall-stone three inches long and as much in circumference, weighing 245 grains. During the two following. weeks a thin liquor was poured out in great abundance: soon after the sore healed up, and the woman recovered. It is evident the gall-bladder must in this case have inflamed and suppurated. A sudden inflammation of the parts contiguous to the liver, by which it would soon ...
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Very Good. Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. About 200pp with discontinuous pagination. Facsimile of the London 1802 edition in Yale Univ Library. Limited edition.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Printed for T. Payne by S. Hamilton / DevCom, Inc
Published:
1988
Language:
English
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14717676991
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Facsimile reprint of only excerpts from the original published in 1802, presented as a service to medicine by Lederle Laboratories. Gilt-stamped gray cloth. Corners bumped, near fine in a very good wrap around folded sleeve. Classics in Medical Literature.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.