Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters.

  • Thomas, John.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Practical observations on chronic affections of the digestive organs, and on bilious and nervous disorders : being an attempt to combine with English practice some useful methods of cure employed on the continent : also remarks on warm mineral baths, mineral waters in general, and on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    jealous eye to works dated from fashionable watering places, we are inclined to view the present in a much more favourable light. The author appears to regulate his practice on the principles of Broussais,* whose doc- trines, though announced by our French brethren as perfectly novel, have, in their principal points been long acted upon in this country by our best practical physicians, and with serious advantage, especially in the chronic inflammatory affections of the ab- dominal viscera. The observations on the means of depleting the nervous system of these organs we look upon as the best part The Author tukes this opportunity to observe, that al- though his pathology of chronic affections of the abdominal viscera agrees with that of Broussais, yet his mode of treat- ment will be found to differ in many points; he further begs to assure the Reviewer, that for more than twenty years before Broussais published those principles in his “ His- toire des I'hlegmasks Chi oniques,” he acted uj>on them.