A treatise on indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases, in which they sometimes terminate . / by A.P.W. Philip.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases, in which they sometimes terminate . / by A.P.W. Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frequently occasions an increased flow of urine. The same cause often occasions a greater discharge from the bowels. It particularly demands attention in this disease, that, al- though the increased discharge from the bowels in the instance before us is of a watery nature, when the skin has, from the state of that disease, become uniformly languid, the increase is often in the solid, as well as h- quid, contents of the bowels. On the same principle, the quantity which passes from the bowels of delicate children when the skin has become dry and shrivelled, is often asto- nishing, and that even when little nourish- | ment is received, as if not only what ought to have passed by the skin, but a great deal of what had been inhaled by this organ were deposited in a solid form in the alimentary canal. Some facts would lead us to suppose | that in such a state of the skin, the inhalation by it is often very great. I have seen several gallons of water drawn off from a child ten or twelve years old, labouring .under exten-