A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman.

Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - •' -—::..TT»a IN FEVER. TYPHUS. 47 depression, is studiously to be employed as having been frequently known to produce the most sur- prising and salutary consequences : I here particu- larly allude to inspiring confidence in the remedial measures, and the hope of recovery. That the brain is often much affected in the course of fever, the suffused eyes, the stupor, the disturbance and interruption of the functions of this organ, unequi- vocally demonstrate ; and the application of means intended to remedy directly this affection of the brain, every practitioner is imperiously called upon to prescribe. These are the abstraction of blood from the forehead and temples, and from the pos- terior auricular part of the cranium by leeches; the application of cold in the form of iced water, or of refrigerating lotions and epithems to the shaved scalp; and of blisters either to the scalp itself or to the nucha, according to the state of^ the symptoms and the stage of the disease. That the prudent application of remedies such as these,, suited to the removal of the diseased state of the brain and nervous system, has also a great effect in amending the condition of the stomach and bowels, is as certain on the one hand ; as, on the other, that the removal of undigested aliment from the stomach by emetics, and of accumulated faecal deposits from the bowels by purgatives, will not only operate powerfully and beneficially on the