HEPATIC • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Hepatic

... serious prostration, if not actual shock, and perhaps, at times, death. The most frequent cause of such a reflex is abdominal pain, perhaps due to some serious condition in the stomach, to gastralgia, to an intestinal twist, to intussusception or other obstruction, or to hepatic or renal colic. A severe nerve injury anywhere may cause such a heart reflex. Hence serious nerve pain must always be stopped almost immediately, else cardiac and vasomotor shock will occur. In serious pain morphin becomes ...

— DISTURBANCES OF THE HEART • OLIVER T. OSBORNE, A.M., M.D.