The indigestions, or, diseases of the digestive organs functionally treated / by Thomas King Chambers.

  • Chambers, Thomas King, 1818-1889.
Date:
1867
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    § 5. Treatment of indigestion based on article of food not digested. Case XLYII.—It must not consist in entire omission of the indigested article from the dietary. Scorbutus from medical advice to leave off vegetables. Case XliYIII.—Pm-pura from insufficient vegetable diet in a hard- working man. Case XLIX.—Illness from omitting meat. Pain at epigastrium, costiveness and debility. Amenori-hoea a stomach disease. Hints on Dietetics. § 6. Tt'eatinent based on general pathological condition of indigestion, as itsed in foregoing cases. Principally quinine and strychnine. C HAPTER III.—Habits of Social Life leading to Indigestion. (The treatment is based on their removal.) § 1. Eating too little. Case L.—Illness fi'om omitting meat. Emaciation, flatulence, hysteria, irregular pulse. Case LI.—Tlluess from omitting meat. Debility, flatulence, palpitation of heart, intermittent pulse. Case LII.—Illness fi'om religious ascetism. Mental depression. § 2. Eating too much. Case LIII.—Eating too much not necessai*ily a vice. Symptoms in a robust woman of active intellect. Case LIY.—Symptoms in a woman of weaker intellect. Gluttony. Obesity. Hysteria. Case LV.—Melancholy in a man from over-eating and not caring. Case LVI.—Caution against overloading the stomach when the heart is diseased afforded by the case of an old man who dropped down dead.