On diseases of the stomach : the varieties of dyspepsia, their diagnosis and treatment / by S.O. Habershon.

  • Habershon, S. O. (Samuel Osborne), 1825-1889.
Date:
1866
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Credit: On diseases of the stomach : the varieties of dyspepsia, their diagnosis and treatment / by S.O. Habershon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    proportional weight to the rest of the body is said to be as 1 to 18, and at about four or five years of age it attains the proportion which is afterwards maintained, that of 1 to 86. The mesenteric glands are very large and distinct; they are more vascular than at any other period of life, and their function appears to be connected with the elaboration of the chylous fluid after absorption by the lacteal vessels, and prior to its discharge into the blood. If a non-nutritious diet be administered, low organised or strumous product is very prone to occur in these parts, and the same result is found if the system be exhausted from other causes. Again, stimulants and irritating food so disorder the mucous membrane, that acute Lypersemia in these mesenteric glands quickly follows. They may even be felt through the abdominal parietes, and when diarrhoea and general exhaustion exist at the same time, the malady is very apt to be mistaken for organic and incurable tabes; and although the enlargement may be merely hypergemic, there is gi-eat liability to the deposition of inorganic product of a strumous kind. If health be restored, the old diseased glands will be found in subsequent years us a semi-cretaceous mass. In youth, whilst growth is rapidly advancing, the digestive organs are taxed to furnish materials, not only to maintain ordinary wear and tear, but to supply that which is needed for additions to the frame; and if the blood be rendered unhealthy, and growth