A treatise on indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases, in which they sometimes terminate . / by A.P.W. Philip.

  • Philip, Alexander Philip Wilson, 1770-1847.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases, in which they sometimes terminate . / by A.P.W. Philip. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when the skin has been unusually excited, or an alkalescent state of the stomach and bowels prevails, it becomes turbid, and de- posits a white sediment, which has been as- certained, by the experiments of Dr. Wol- laston, to consist of the phosphates of the urine. Both these states, particularly the former, are more apt to appear in Indigestion than in ordinary health; and the urine in this disease is sometimes covered with a very thin oily film, which appears to arise from an imperfect state of the assimilating pro- cess. Sometimes also it is limpid, and passed in unusually large quantities, more fre- quently scanty and too high coloured. It is then most apt, as we should @ priori expect, to deposit the above sediments unless some degree of fever prevail, when it often either deposits nothing, or a little of the red sedi- ment. A remarkable sympathy between the state of the kidneys and intestines is often ob- served in Indigestion, the urine remaining