Facts and observations on liver complaints and bilious disorders, in general : and on the derangements of that important organ and of its immediate or intimate connections which most sensibly influence the biliary secretion, with practical deductions drawn from an ample share of experience, and a close and constant attention to this subject, in various climates : connected by an appropriate and successful mode of treatment ... / by John Faithhorn.

  • Faithhorn, John.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Facts and observations on liver complaints and bilious disorders, in general : and on the derangements of that important organ and of its immediate or intimate connections which most sensibly influence the biliary secretion, with practical deductions drawn from an ample share of experience, and a close and constant attention to this subject, in various climates : connected by an appropriate and successful mode of treatment ... / by John Faithhorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    quantum of application fatigues me more than it originally did. My age is 38. As to the evacuations from the bowels, they are by no means regular or correct, either as to quantity or quality. Generally they are of a brown, firm (and if I may so speak, toward the projecting or issuing end from the rec- tum), knotty consistence ; when broken in that part, they discover an intermixture of viscid glary mucus, and are at times partially coated with it; they are seldom of a light, spongy or frothy consistence ; very rarely are they thin, w ith a mixture of hard faeces. Some three or four times, during the last five years, I have been a little affected with piles, wheu the body was more than usually costive, but at no other time. My urine is in general of a highish brown colour, occasionally depositing a turbid, floating, stringy sediment: it varies very little from this state. These, Sir, are my general feelings and symptoms, and were I to sum them up in one sentence, it would be, that 1 am persuaded the liver is affected in its biliary secretions ; that the stomach, sympathizing with it, is proportionally influenced by its derangement; and that indigestion, &c. are but the effects of it the primary cause. As I confidently anticipate you will be able to prescribe for my effectual relief, I shall feel much gratitude and obligation by your early communication on the subject. In the mean time, I beg leave to subscribe myself, Your humble and obedient Servant, F. T. P. S. I may just observe to you, in addition to the symp- toms already stated, that a firm pressure or push of the'thumb on any part of what I conceive to be the seat of the liver, gives me no pain. To Mr. John Faithhorn, Surgeon, Berners Street, London. The above gentleman continued under my care about ten weeks, during which he pertinaciously attended to every injunction recommended, and in his last correspondence, h« begged to offer most grateful acknowledgments, with the ex- pression, “ I feel a renovated man.”