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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:
1824
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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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    find, require different, and sometimes even opposite, remedies. I have attempted to point out the influence of regimen, and to determine the rules by which the employment of mercury, which, we have reason to believe, has become too indiscriminate in this disease, should be re- culated, and the limits at which its beneficial no longer counterbalance its injurious effects. In the composition of the following Trea- tise, recourse has not been had to the works of others. It cannot, therefore, be regarded as an attempt to present to the reader the sum of our knowledge on the subject. I offer it simply as the result of my observa- tions, and the reflections suggested by them, during a space of twenty-five years.