EPAATTES. 
ony eof - 
om 
difeafe, it is by no meansa neceffary conlequeniee “a 
it; ; fince the paflage of the bile into the duodenum — con- 
i 0 the 
rtp 
Hewes , liike other inflafhmations, may potion coat in 
"i te a and abfcefs, aud perhaps gan- 
_— ; Orit may lead to chronic induration or Feiteise of 
the hv 
The refolution of hepatitis is often accomplifhed by an 
early and judicious employment of the remedies to be enume- 
~~ immediately, In fev eral ope tance it has been the con- 
rved to precede the folution of the fen 23 femal’ a ‘bic 
lious diarrhoea has contributed to the fame event ; and fome- 
times a free {weating, or an evacuation of urine, depofitin ga 
copious ews has - ii mae the refolution of this, as 
of other infla 0 nit eem 
that a copious ‘eepetiots on of mucus from the lungs has 
affifted in n producing this aiken cs coreg: the ge- 
neral inflam mmatory diathefis. An ¢ ‘latous inflamma- 
4 ng on fome external part, fs likewife ap 
‘Sure this difeafe ; and it is not improbable that a fee 
oa: of coagulable lymph has promoted its refolu- 
tion, although produdtive of adhefion to the neighbouring 
parts. The influence of feveral of thefe difcharges, how- 
poe = probably been magnified by the humoral patho- 
' befiesn ’ in the right hypoc 
a a ines ‘poet ate when lying 
on the left fide. ‘There are alfo frequent rigors or fhiver- 
ings, as the formation of matter: can: and an acceflion 
—— towards evening, with flufhings of the countenance, 
@ pro — to poked night-fweats, and other A 
‘ i. or = 
em ten which is collected in the abfcefs thus forme 
Continues to accumulate, until it makes its way to one part 
“Or another obal the furface of the liver ; it may; ther 
Sobeget m various ways, more oe if the _—— 
of coagulable lymph, before mentioned, fhall have occa 
an adhefion of the ehasface of the liver to. the contiguous 
mes and fuch a is. a Pept attendant - 
thefe, and be difcharged 
a e Ivers 
rocefs 
‘manner, ches sports —or an 
adhefion having taken place batiicen the liver sot the ito- 
mach or inteftine, when the ulceration Soak art fo as to pe- 
netrate the adhering parts, the pus may be difcharged into 
the ftomach or the bowels. Under oo circumftances, the 
patient frequently recovers, even after much presen, and 
ther very unpromifing appearances ‘had occurred. “ Per. 
haps the moft ufeful ries aa of hepatic abfcefies,”? Dr. 
aunders obferves, “ by t eftinal canal, is that where, 
an adhefion taking place wise the fuppurating part a 
the Aketinet, an ulceration enfues, and the contents of the 
to the fituation of the a 
concave part, the du odeniam 
pofe; but when the lo : 
concerned, the great arch « "ie colon is the ufual out 
and in t thefe cafes it - hag old probable, from the feale of 
the parts concerned, the opening of communication 
nhs be mote ex atic "ais the ind 3 of the matter 
re free."’——When no adhefive inflammation has oc 
sid the fuppurated part of the liver does: not clofely ad- 
here to any Ap ring organ, the pus may be difcharged 
into the cavi domen, and will almoit neceffarily 
deftroy the life oF ‘ie patient. 
It has not been clearly afcertained, that inflammation of 
the liver terminates in mortification or ga 
E 
cit. Ps 274- 
bor. epift xxxiv. art. 2 
Poe flate of induration and fcirrhus, in which we have 
faid that fuibiictiation of the liver Gecatiottalty terminates, is 
a more frequent confequence of the chronic tion 
the vifcus. pe My A day! iftafes of. 
db ot always eafy to be made, in 
gees if ‘the pti Pot the organ difeafed to 5 the ti: 
and —— as well as to the ftomach; fo that it is 
Lethe ake ftaken for inflammation of thefe organs, t 
Pete for sede 
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on ayet a iy fatedy in My (i 
