A treatise on indigestion and its consequenses, 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:
1821
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Credit: A treatise on indigestion and its consequenses, 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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    secretion of healthy gastric fluid, must, at length, produce some of those other effects which we witness, when the powers of the stomach are disordered by any offending cause. | An emetic, while it remains on the sto- mach, destroys the appetite, occasions nausea, sometimes pain, and produces, in consequence of the sympathy which exists between the stomach and every other part of the system, a general state of debility, now and then almost approaching to syncope. The sur- face is pale, cold, and shrunk, and the action of the heart is impaired, the pulse becoming small and feeble. The limbs perhaps trem- ble, and are always unequal to their usual exertions, and the mind is anxious and sub- dued. These symptoms, however, disappear as soon as the act of vomiting relieves the - ‘stomach from the offending cause. When we consider that the causes which disorder the powers of the stomach in Indi- gestion are of a more permanent nature, and that the contents which irritate its surface,