124 TEllMINATIONS OF INFLAMMATION OF LIVER. 



or yellow, more or less coated with a slimy deposit, with 

 an unpleasant taste in the mouth. There is nausea, at 

 times vomiting and loss of appetite ; the bowels are 

 irregular, at times costive, at other times diarrhceic, the 

 urine is scanty, high-coloured, and heavily charged with 

 lithates ; there is more or less night fever and general 

 restlessness. 



As the disease progresses, the pulse becomes quicker, 

 filler, and more irritable as night approaches ; oppressed 

 and embarrassed during the morning and day. The 

 uneasiness in the liver becomes augmented ; complaints 

 are made of a heavy dragging pain in th- increased 



<>n motion or turning in bed; there is a short suppressed 

 ii, great oppression, dy^pnu-a, and a catch on full 

 inspiration. Percussion reveals great tumefaction of 

 the 01 -an as evinced by the area of dulness which 

 ids below the ribs, and hi;_;li into the thorax. The 

 stools become watery, frequent, and scanty ; the colour 

 is dark, sometimes charged with blood and attended 

 with a distressing t : : the urine i very 



scanty , and thickly charged with air or pinky 



sediment, which sealds th- patient while p:i 



it' the ilow of bilr is found in the 



urine a dark brown tlocky sediment. 



Surh, then, are the ordinary steps taken by inflamma- 

 tion of the si liver, as observed both in 

 old and warm climates, and which continue with certain 

 variations till removed by treatment, or glide into suppu- 

 ration, i\ 



;M [NATION. Acute inflammation of the substance 

 of the liver may terminate in various ways. 



1. It may terminate in a rapid and complete recovery, 



