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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    debility that has already been induced, the body is unable to endure a repetition of-those measures, which were successful in subduing the morbid affections following the primary attack. IN ACUTE GASTRITIS. In some cases of this disease, death has been known to take place in a much more speedv man- ner than can be explained on the principle of the progress of active inflammation, such as we ob- serve in this morbid condition of other organs ; and the only cause we can assign for this rapid fa- tality is the remarkable sympathy between the sto- mach and the brain and nervous system, these being, through the medium of this sympathy, impressed with a shock which they do not suffer, in the active inflammation of other parts of the body. There has not been time in such cases for the superven- tion of suppuration or of gangrene, neither of which terminations, indeed, has been perceived upon anatomical inspection. In certain instances general convulsions have taken place; and these, as well as the delirium, vertigo, and blindness, which sometimes occur, are referrible to the same sympathy. This rapid fatality in inflammation of the sto- mach mav be considered as bearing a very close