The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq.

  • Newton, John Frank.
Date:
1811
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Credit: The return to nature, or, A defence of the vegetable regimen : with some account of an experiment made during the last three or four years in the author's family / by John Frank Newton, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    of the general corruption of blood in the hu- man species. It seems as absurd to imagine any disease local, as to believe that the light which now darts across this room is unsup- ported by a continuous stream of the same fluid. The mischief, whatever shape it as- sume, proceeds from the alimentary canal. Let us reflect on what takes place in insanity, for example: The nature of the affections calculated to give birth to periodical mania, and the affinities of this complaint with me- lancholia and hypochondriasis, warrant the presumption that its seat, primarily, is almost always in the epigastric region^ and that from this centre are propagated, as it were by a species of irradiation, the accessions of insa- nity. All the abdominal system even seem to enter into the sad confederacy. The patient complains of a sense of tightness in the region of the stomach, want of appetite, obstinate cos- tiveness, and a sensation of heat in the bowels, which obtains a temporary relief from copious draughts of cooling liquors. p. 17 • In the beginning of this complaint an un- usual sensation is felt in the epigastric region, symptomatic, as it would appear, of some great commotion in the centre of the system; which,