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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    languid inflammation of the eyelids, tinnitus aurium, and occasionally throbbing of the temples. Some are oppressed with drowsi- ness, sometimes almost approaching to stupor, others with almost constant pain more or less severe, sometimes in the back of the head, more frequently in the fore part, others are subject to giddiness, and some even to sud- den fits of insensibility. The thoracic viscera are often particularly affected, occasional, and not unfrequently, more or less permanent, dyspnoea supervenes, and the patient is sometimes harassed by a dry and irritating cough, or with fits of pal- pitation. When expectoration attends the cough, it is generally difficult, but brings considerable temporary relief. It deserves notice, that in this stage of the disease, he more frequently complains of pain in the left than in the right side ; but the seat of the pain is very various, not unfrequently, it is chiefly in the back, about the shoulders, sometimes attended with itching, and in the limbs, more frequently in the legs than the arms. Irre- gularity of pulse and syncope are not un-