Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson.

  • Wilson, Andrew, in Path-head.
Date:
1765
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Credit: Short remarks upon autumnal disorders of the bowels, and on the nature of some sudden deaths, observed to happen at the same season of the year : Thoughts on the natural causes of the bile's putrescency, and its noxiousness in the circulation. Physiological thoughts on spasms, and the seat and origin of them in the animal oeconomy / by Andrew Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *9 ) fymptoms of an Icteric diforder or Jaun¬ dice, from a different caufe: the fpafms in that difeafe affecting the excretory orifice of the common du£t of the gall bladder itfelf, where it opens into the duodenum, fhut it quite up, fo that the bile being denied a paffage during the continuance of the pain, regurgi¬ tates and is abforbed into the circula¬ tion again ; which appears upon the co¬ lour of the ll>in generally foon after the caufe which produced it is removed. This cholic and that fuperveening iCteric fymptom are very ordinarily, both of them attributed by feme practitioners, to gail-ftones palling through the <JuCt, irritating its coats and obftruCting the paffage, when there is no fuch thing: for though it is very certain that fuch gall-ftones are fometimes formed in that bladder and are difcharged from it, the difeafe is not fo common as they apprehend; and from what we know of proper iCteric diforders unmixed with D any