Practical observations on the action of morbid sympathies : as included in the pathology of certain diseases; in a series of letters to his son, on his leaving the University of Edinburgh, in the year 1809 / By Andrew Wilson, M.D. Kelso.

  • Wilson, Andrew, M.D.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical observations on the action of morbid sympathies : as included in the pathology of certain diseases; in a series of letters to his son, on his leaving the University of Edinburgh, in the year 1809 / By Andrew Wilson, M.D. Kelso. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no doubt reciprocal; but it is observable, that the sympathetic affinity in these parts, flowing from irritation in the sto- mach, &c. are far stronger and more direct than those which affect the stomach from a distant origin. Upon the whole, how- ever, the great object in practice is not so much to determine the specific form of the sympathetic affection, as to de- cide whether the morbid phenomenon presenting itself is really sympathetic, depending upon affinity with irritation in some distant part ; or whether it be idiopathic, and the effect of a primary local derangement in the organ where the pain or uneasy sensations are seat- ed; or whether it proceed trom both of these causes acting together. It is fur- ther to be noticed, that, in contempla- ting the pathology of sympathetic dis- eases, the various idiosyncrasies of con- ‘stitution, whereby an individual may be- come violently influenced by particular