Inaugural dissertation on the connexion between some diseases of the liver and of the intestines : submitted to the Medical Faculty of the University of Edinburgh, in conformity with the rules of graduation by authority of the Very Rev. Principal Lee, and with the sanction of the Senatus Academicus / by F. Beaugeard.

  • Beaugeard, F. O.
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1855
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    ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN SOME DISEASES OP THE LIVER AND OF THE INTESTINES. SECTION I. 1. The existence of a connexion of some sort or other between many diseases of the Liver and of the Intestines, has been acknowledged for a very long time. The authors who have written on the affections of those organs are numerous; and, of course, it was to be expected that a difference of opinion should exist among them with regard to such a con- nexion. But this difference only relates to its kind, or merely perhaps to its frequency of occurrence ; its existence they all more or less clearly recognised; and at this conclu- sion they had arrived from their own experience of those diseases, and from the observation of facts which are too plain and forcible to be denied. As far as I am aware, how- ever, none went deep into the matter, and endeavoured to bring out fully its nature; and especially amongst the ear- liest authors it was mentioned merely incidentally, and was far from being clearly apprehended. More modern writers have given some explanations, but only of the connexion between few diseases, and principally between dysentery and abscess of the liver, when such occurs: and it is not perhaps too bold to say that, among these few, several have not offered any thing like a satisfactory solution to the as-yet somewhat obscure problem ; whilst others, though certainly accounting for some features in those maladies, have still done so in all but a generalizing way. Indeed, their theories may safely be reckoned as explaining very well some particu- lar cases, whilst they cannot be applied to the greater num- ber. We shall not at present refer to those from whom we venture to differ: as we proceed, we shall come to mention