Practical observations on some of the diseases of the stomach and alimentary canal / by James Alderson.

Date:
1847
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Credit: Practical observations on some of the diseases of the stomach and alimentary canal / by James Alderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the stomach are first affected, life cannot be sus- tained long enough to allow the other organs to become morbidly tainted. Another explanation of the fact may be sug- gested in the case of simple carcinoma with stric- ture of these parts. When the disease is thus situated, emaciation takes place to a great extent, and very rapidly: and the activity of the absorbents must, during this process, be greatly increased, since the whole, or nearly the whole, supply for the sustenance of life is to be derived from the resources of the body itself: every thing which can serve as an element of respiration is therefore re- moved to compensate for the want of a due supply of nutriment. This state would counteract the deposit of the morbid material.