Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tween the false ribs and the navel ; diarrhoea does not supervene till after its obstruction, or the ulcera- tion of its edges. 648. If the cancer be seated in the cardia there is no tumour of the epigastrium ; the pains are only felt in the superior part of the stomach, and in the back ; the patient often brings up a mouthful of mu- cous matter, or even of the undigested food, and is harassed by an abundant salivation. When the affection attacks the body of the viscus the lesser curvature more generally suffers ; the suf- ferer takes little food or drink, as they always occa- sion a very painful distention, and are ejected up almost as soon as swallowed. 649. Universal degeneration of this viscus pro- duces almost unceasing pains, and is attended with scarcely any vomiting, a circumstance which may also be remarked when this organ has contracted adhesions with the adjacent viscera. Nausea only exists when the pylorus is contracted, the stomach partially ulcerated or recently perfora- ted ; or when some abdominal inflammation is ex- isting. 650. This disease may be mistaken for certain chronic nervous vomitings; for chronic gastritis; or may be confounded with aneurism of the abdo- minal aorta, or tumours formed by the accumulation of fmcal matter in the colon. 651. Anatomical Characters.—When the change of structure is seated in the pylorus, the stomach is enlarged ; in almost all other cases this viscus is found smaller than in the natural state. It is filled with a blackish liquid which exists in the absence as 'well as presence of ulcerations. The thickness of the morbid part varies from two lines to half an inch or more ; its internal surface is uneven, ulcera- ted, and covered with a whitish grey or blackish fungous matter, in the intervals of which numerous depressions are perceived ; its external surface may