Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach / by C. Handfield Jones.

  • Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach / by C. Handfield Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are exhausting or depressing; or who have long been accustomed to such stimulus. 3rd. That by the mass of mankind, high and low, they are drunk to injurious excess. In persons who suffer from indigestion, if taken at all, they should be taken in very moderate quantity, and only at the time of meals, or soon after. If taken when the stomach is empty, they stimulate the stomach when it has no work to perform, and are absorbed more rapidly, and are consequently more apt to cause disorder in the head and elsewhere than at other times. The quantity that can be taken with advantage, or without injury, varies greatly in different persons, according to the constitution, the size of the body, the mode of life, and the previous habits. Any quantity is hurtful that oppresses the head, or makes the skin hot, or disturbs the sleep. The effect of the different fermented drinks, when taken to excess, differs greatly. The distilled spirits do the greatest direct injury to the stomach and the liver. The victims of spirit- drinking frequently die of organic disease of the stomach, or of that disease of the liver which is here fitly called the gin-drinker's liver; but they suffer little from gout. The heavy malt liquors, probably from the greater (dilution of the spirit, have little disposition to inflame Ithe stomach or the liver, but have an especial tendency Ito bring on gout. No men are such melancholy victims <of gout as men of the lower classes in London, who make their hard work an excuse for drinking enormous (quantities of porter. Wines are free from the strongest objections to both