Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach / by C. Handfield Jones.

  • Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach / by C. Handfield Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are the muriatic and the lactic, singly or combined. Acetic acid is formed more rarely; oxalic and butyric acids in too small quantity to produce this effect; and cai'bonic acid seems to be only troublesome or injurious from the flatulent distension it occasions. We have seen that there are many conditions which lead to an excessive or untimely secretion of gastric acid. Spallanzani and Dr. Beaumont collected gastric juice for some of their experiments by mere mechanical irrita- tion of the inner surface of the stomach; and there can be little doubt that the irritation resulting from a simple ulcer, or from cancer affecting a small portion of the stomach, or from the presence of some hard or indiges- tible substance when the stomach is sound, often causes an excessive secretion of gastric acid, or the secretion of gastric acid when there is no food in the stomach to dissolve. A source of irritation in some other organ that can affect the stomach by a reflex nervous influence, like direct irritation of the stomach itself, may cause an out- pouring of gastric acid, when the stomach is empty of food. Proof of this may often be had during the passage of gall-stones through the gall-ducts; in the gastric dis- order so common in organic diseases of the brain and in tubercular disease of the lung; and in various other conditions. Again, excessive secretion of gastric acid may result from some fault, either inherited or acquired, in what have been termed the secondary assimilating processes, leading to certain unhealthy conditions of the blood. This is seen most distinctly in gouty persons and in men of middle age who have led the life that disposes to gout. X 2