Ars chirurgica a compendium of the theory and practice of chirurgery in seven books ... shewing the names, causes, signs, differences, prognosticks, and various intentions of curing all kinds of chirurgick diseases ... : to which is added Pharmacopoeia chirurgica, or, The medical store, Latin and English ... / by William Salmon ...

III. Wounds of the Liver.

VIII. Wounds of the Liver, by reason of a vehement Flux of Blood, are mortal. For the Patient dies by Fluxion of Blood, before agglutination can be made: But this is to be understood of large and deep Wounds, for such as are shallow, and in the edges of it, may be healed. Therefore,

IX. It was the Opinion of Cel∣sus, that Wounds of the Liver, in the Vena Porta, were only Mor∣tal; and that when the thick part of the Liver was wounded, Death generally ensued: That is, when the Concave or Convex Parts thereof are hurt; but other Wounds thereof are only dan∣gerous; and unless happening in a Cacochymick Body, or in one committing some Error, are not hard to heal.

X. Now, when the Liver is wounded, much Blood flows out of the Right Side, and the Bowels are drawn to the Back-bone. There is also sometimes Vomiting of Choler, the Sick looks pale, Coughs, and delights rather to lie on his Belly; he makes bloo∣dy Urine and Stools, languishes in a Fever, and at length the Body consumes away.