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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    usual symptoms. The former I have re- peatedly known continue for years, even attended with the more characteristic symp- toms of angina pectoris without organic af- fection of the heart having supervened, al- though under such circumstances it is always to be dreaded. It is not uncommon for the muscles of the chest to become painful on motion, and even to the touch. The ab- ‘dominal muscles also are sometimes affected in the same way. This affection is apt to be worse at night, so that the patient turns him- self in bed with difficulty and pain. i the Symptoms of the Second Stage of Indigestion. _ At various periods of the disease, for the most part after repeated derangement of the hepatic function, comes on a permanent ten- derness on pressure, sometimes but slight, of the soft parts close to the edge of the cartilages of the false ribs on the right side, alter they have turned upwards to be joined to the sternum. This spot is often very cir-