InformationalPrivacy
| If we must die--let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die--oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not b... Read more of If We Must Die at Martin Luther King.ca | Informational Privacy |
 |
Home |
Medical Articles |
Mother's Remedies |
Household Tips |
Medicine History |
Search |
Medical CategoriesAccidents, Emergencies And PoisonsAnimal Parasites Beauty Circulatory System Constitutional Diseases Deformities Digestive Organs Diseases Of The Blood And Ductless Galnds Diseases Of The Eye And Ear Diseases Of The Nervous System Diseases Of The Skin Diseases Of Women Homeopathy Infectious Diseases Intoxicants And Sun Strokes Kidney And Bladder Medical Uses Of Some Common Household Articles Mother's Diagnosis Obstetrics Or Midwifery Patent Medicines And Secret Forumla Respiratory Diseases Terms Unclassified Remedies |
TUBERCULAR PERITONITISCategory: Digestive Organs This may occur as a primary trouble or secondary to tuberculosis of the bowels, lungs, and Fallopian tube. It is most frequent in males between twenty and forty. Symptoms. These are variable. It may occur like acute peritonitis with sudden onset of high fever, pain, tenderness, bloating, vomiting and constipation; these symptoms passing into those of chronic peritonitis. Often there are gradual loss of strength and flesh, low and irregular fever; frequently the temperature goes below normal with a little ascites tympanites, constipation, diarrhea and masses in the abdomen which consist of the omentum (apron covering the bowels) rolled up and matted into a sausage-shaped tumor in the upper part of the abdomen, or of thickened or adherent coils of the bowel, enlarged mesentric lymph nodes, etc. Spontaneous recovery may occur, or the course of the disease may resemble that of a malignant tumor. Treatment. If there is effusion and few adhesions, cutting in and removing the fluid may help. In other cases good nourishing diet with cod liver oil is best. Next: ASCITES. (Hydroperitoneum. Abdominal Dropsy) Previous: TREATMENT OF THE ACUTE PERITONITIS
Viewed 751 |
||||||||||||||||||||
