An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson.

Date:
1792
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Credit: An inquiry into the remote cause of urinary gravel / by Alexander Philip Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *5$ ] have confidered as the proximate caufe of dyfpepfia, I am perfuaded, that vomiting, which is generally the firft remedy here em- ployed, is for the moft part hurtful. I have frequently ufed it, and always found the fame neceffity for it next day; unlefs I had taken other means for preventing the re- turn of my complaints. The reafon of this is evident; for, while we vomit, we evacuate the ftomach, indeed, of its morbid contents, but at the fame time, along with thefe, of its gaftric liquor ; fo that, by throwing in food after vomiting, the fournefs and troublefome fymptoms loon return, becaufe there is no gaftric liquor in in the ftomach to check fermentation, and digeft the food. But if the patient, after vomiting, fhould faft fome time, till the gaf- tric liquor flow into the ftomach in fufficient quantity; and only take at once a final! quan-