On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker.

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1866
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    varied symptoms^ sucli as flatulence_, acid eructa- tions, gastralgia, etc., accompanied by that peculi- arly acid condition of the stomach which has been found so frequently to exist at post-mortem examin- ations, and which Dr. Hughes Bennett considers as the true cause of phthisis,—we have, I am per- suaded, in its appropriate treatment, one of the most powerful means of arresting pulmonary phthisis. Whilst on the subject of diet, I entered some- what fully into that part of the management of dys- pepsia which has reference to this. I must there- fore direct attention to pages 250-1-2-3-4, for my views on that question, and limit my remarks at present to the medicinal treatment of the chief symptoms of disordered digestion, nearly all of which arise from the same cause, viz., the want of a due balance being maintained between the powers of the stomach and the food given it to digest; for because the system is weak, forgetting that this viscus is weak also, it is often attempted to remedy it by giving an additional quantity of food, which to a stomach already debilitated is sure to produce dis- order. Our attention, therefore, should be directed to restoring this viscus to a healthy condition, which
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