On dyspepsia : with remarks, submitted in support of the opinion that, the proximate cause of this, and of all other diseases, affecting the general system, is vitiation of the blood / by John Burdett Steward.

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1847
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    tlicm—be takes to his bed, never perhaps again to rise from it. Iij illustration of the above remarks, the author begs attention to the following case :— In the year lb20, when he was assisting iJr. Wray, then of Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, a Mr. W, called one day at the surgery, com- plainiug of an attack of indigestion ; he said lie had been often subject to the same attack, and that all he wanted was some opening medicine. He said he had felt some degree of nausea and uneasiness after eating, and slight pain in the head, which he said was nothing unusual. He was told that typhus was prevalent, and that he had better remain at home, as it might be an incipient attack of fever; he, however, neglected the advice, confident in his opinion, that it was oue of his usual attacks of indigestion. A few days after he called again to say he was worse, and that now he would stay at home. The pain in the head had increased, and the prostration of strength, and the state of the pulse and tongue now left no doubt of the nature of the case.