A Practical Treatise On The Diseases Of The Liver And Biliary Passage

Author : William Thomson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334737633
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Liver and Biliary Passages (Classic Reprint) written by William Thomson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-23 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Liver and Biliary Passages Desirous of giving such a view of hepatic diseases and disorders as should embrace those in warm climates, in addition to the carefully re corded summary of their nature and occurrence in temperate regions, as furnished in Dr. Thomson's admirable treatise, it has been thought ad visabl'e to enrich the present volume with the essays of Mr. Twining, of Bengal. These are on diseases both of the Liver and the Spleen; and being of a clinical character they cannot fail to be specially instruc tive and available to the student and practitioner of the Southern and Western States. Mr. Twining's experience is also adverse to the lavish and routine administration of mercury in bilious disorder' or hepatic derangements, ' real or supposititious. He does not believe in any uniform controlling power of mercury upon the secretion of the liver. His criticism on the abuse of calomel in the treatment of diseases of children in India, on the plea of their depending on hepatic derangements, is but too applicable to a prevalent practice in the United States. Ai though, he says, the absolute necessity of employing calomel in the treatment of some stages ofmany of the acute diseases of children in this country [india] is acknowledged, it is lamentable to observe the vast injury that is in icted on numbers of these poor, pale, unhealthy creatures, by the calomel discipline intended to rectify the state of the then biliary secre tion, at the time that their systems are suffering from extreme debility and anemia, and when the power of the constitution to form healthy red blood is still farther impeded by the use of mercurials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."