schirrus

Thus it is noticed that polypi and schirrus [cancer] of the womb are common among prostitutes.

Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

And when that callum, schirrus, or incrustation, drawn over it by nature, and hardened by custom in sin, is once flayed off, the conscience becomes so pliant and supple, that the least imaginable touch is painful unto it.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

A case is described in Class I. 2. 3. 18. where a tumid spleen, attended with fever, terminated in schirrus of that viscus.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

A schirrus frequently affects a canal, and by contracting its diameter becomes a painful and deplorable disease.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The schirrus of the rectum is known by the patient having pain in the part, and being only able to part with liquid feces, and by the introduction of the finger; the swelled part of the intestine is sometimes protruded downwards, and hangs like a valve, smooth and hard to the touch, with an aperture in the centre of it.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

It sometimes happens that the large external veins of the legs burst, and effuse their blood; but this occurs most frequently in the veins of the intestines, as the vena portarum is liable to suffer from a schirrus of the liver opposing the progression of the blood, which is absorbed from the intestines.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Another seat of schirrus is in the membranous parts of the system, as of the rectum intestinum, the urethra, the gula or throat; and of this kind is the verucca or wart, and the clavus pedum, or corns on the toes.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

In some inebriates the torpor of the liver produces pain without apparent schirrus, or gall stones, or inflammation, or consequent gout, and in these epilepsy or insanity are often the consequence.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

_ A schirrus of the throat contracts the passage so as to render the swallowing of solids impracticable, and of liquids difficult.

Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Monsieur Leiutaud has judiciously mentioned the deficiency of the quantity of blood amongst the causes of diseases, which he says is frequently evident in dissections: fevers are hence brought on by great hæmorrhages, diarrhoeas, or other evacuations; or from the continued use of diet, which contains but little nourishment; or from the exhaustion occasioned by violent fatigue, or by those chronic diseases in which the digestion is much impaired; as where the stomach has been long affected with the gout or schirrus; or in the paralysis of the liver, as described in Sect.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766