The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-07
L diseases Of the Liver.
Bya DR., T. Clarence Price.

affections Of the Liver, Kidneys and Lungs,
are Incredible ard by far the greatest ma
| jority of them scarcely have suspicion that
such a difficulty exists in the slightest, degree
Although they seldom feel well, they are
10th to believe that anything serious may
arise from it. Disease of the liver produce a
great variety of symptoms, and those symp
tions are all considered as sc parate and dls-
tinct diseases and treated as such by doctors,
because ignoront Nosologists have done SO
before them. This treating symptoms of a
disease productive of great evil, as the pain
or distress is by these means transferred from
one place to another for some length OF time,
thus deceiving the patient and inducing him
to believe that he Is better, whilst the really
diseased organ which is the cause of ell these
local difficulties, remains undisturbed until it
becomes a mass Of irrecoyerable obstruction
The situation and office of the Liver render it
more exposed to the action OF disease, and
more liable TO become so than any other or
gan of the human body. The symptoms
lcharacterizing diseased liver are numerous.
! A sensation Of fitness across the chest, in
consequence of viscid blood accumu lating in
the liver, causing it to enlarge or swell, which
would press upon the diaphragm, thus lessen
the capacity of the chest, that the lungs
would not have room to expand. and Difficult
| ty lof breathing, or shortness of breath would
follow, giving rise to phthisic or asthma, and
after the upper surface of the liver becomes
di seased, extends its influence to the lungs,
producing consumption, which doubtless is
one of the most frequent causes in this cli-i
ma tie for producing this disease. When the
bl God is retained too long in the liver it be-
comes acrid and creates inflammation, and III
ceration of the liver in time would take place.
The viscid state of the blood often produces
q thick and viscid state of the bile, giving rise
to the formation of hillary calculi, gall stones
gravel, etc producing great distress, as they
pass through the bile duct. This acrid bile
will produce fever, ,infiamatioD, dysentery,
| and when conveyed into the small intestines
will infame and lrrltate them, and the pa
| tient will feel fainting, or an indescribable
| weakness just below the PIT of the stomach,
| attended with fatulence, acidity, and often q
burning sensation, vomiting, splitting up the
4 food, or spasm, which by medical men is usu-
ally termed Dyspepsia food would distress
] them so much az to cause them to live on a
very spare diet, the digestive organs would
become so much deranged that both diges
i tion and assimilation would be imperfectly
Iperiormed, and much cmaciation of the body,
would follow; others would say that they
| could eat nything, nothing hurts them ~
and although they eat much, it is not at
Itended with an increase OF flesh they still
remain poor, showing that the digestive and
assimilating organs have become SO impair
ed as to render them incapable of performing
their office. The bile when thin and acrid, is
.capable OF being absorbed into the whole sys-
i tenn, giving rise to yelowness,s yellow jaun-
dice, and dark or lsallow spots on parts Of the
body of many individuals. The acrid bile be-
| ing absorbed into the blood, renders it like
wise acrid, and diseases it and hence erur-
tinns humors and even ulcers make their
| appearance Piles are produced from an ac-
rid condition of the bile. In consequence OF
/ the absorption of bile into blood, the viscidi
/ ty of the blood is incrcased-the blood which
was thick before is thus rendered thicker
STILL The Office of the heart is to propel the
blood through the system /; when the blood
becomes thick the labor of the heart is in
creased-which aWakenS its pOwerS-renderS
| it INCAPABLE of throwing the blood to the ex-
! tremities-hence deficient circulation, cold
hands, feet. chilliness, and palpltatl0ns and
| pains over the region of the heart, and which
in many instances, If allowed to continue,
disease of the heart itself will be the result.
Rheumatism, palsy or paralysis, lnumbness of
/ the limbs, aches and pains of one DESCRIPTION |
| or another, are frequently complained OF. |
1 From whence do they arise but from this WIS., |
| cid state of the blood and debility. etc., are
all produce by the deficient support which |
the nerves receive from the blood. Even de. |
rangements of the human intellect are pro
duced in this way. Pain, dizziness of the
head, ringing of the ears, fulness of the head,
/ great heat in the top of the head, sometimes
GOODNESS and other dstresses of the head arc
often experienced. Why is it so The blood
| being thick and viscid, its motion through
the veins is slow, the heat throws the blood
| through the arteries to the head faster than
it returns by the veins back again to the
heart, hence Accommodations of blood take
| place in the head, press upon the brain and
produce all the difficulties above named, even
falling fits and appoplexy are produced IN
| this way.
comes diseased, it frequently extends its in |
fuence to the kidneys, and pains are expert |
enced across the small of the back, produc-
| ing much distress by diseasing neighboring
| organs. It is under such circumstances that
dropsies' diabetes, diseases of the urinary or
gans bladder etc, difficulty, pain and often
| smarting sensation in the passage of urine
which Is milky or high colored, with cloudy
| or brick like sediment. The patient will fire.
quently feel disposition to pass urine, but
the quantity will be small, sometimes merely
pass by drops. at other times it will pass in
large drops at once. >,
Often an affection of the Liver extends its
| influence to the spleen, causing an enlarge
ment of that organ-impalTed condltlon OF
/ the bowels either obstinate costiveness, or
lasting and exhausting diarrhea, as witness
ed in those soldiers or persons subject to
| southern climate-pain in the shoulder, be-
| tween the shoulders, under the shoulder
blade. in the breast, etc. The patient often
irritable, fretful. drowsy or sleepy. eyes bel
come infamed, sight impaired. Illustrs- |
tions of diseases of the liver might be far
| more extended lie is doubtful whether any
disease of chronic character exists in which |
the liver does not perform prominent part,
or is not more or less concerned ana iven-
| ture to affirm that health can In no instance |