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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    The majority of cases, too, in which success has been recorded, have been those in the ad- vanced or last stagesoffever,when—nature having struggled through a long attack-—a state ensues, which is a balance, as it were, between life and death. At such a moment—no organic disease existing—stimulants, certainly, sometimes seem to turn the scale—to revive hope when hope is lost. But is it not the circulation that receives and transmits the stimulus ? Very different, how- ever, has been the effect of the same treatment in the incipient stages of fever, where, nevertheless, the prostration of strength is both great and sudden. The sudden and great prostration of strength in fever of the typhoid kind, is, in truth, owing to a cause, for the removal of which stimulants are wholly inapplicable ; and in cases where suc- cess seems to have attended them, it is doubtful whether nature would not, unaided, have strug- gled through the disease. One case of fever in St. Bride's workhouse, from the support it affords to the above opinion, the author is anxious to mention. The sufferer was a youth of about 23 ;